Honestly! When Jimmy Olsen of all people brings up questions of ethics and morality, Superman should be ashamed of himself. And the way he just dismisses Jimmy's concern makes matters worse.


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So, Jor-el, here's the problem. Your Phantom Zone projector has placed a hundred of the worst psychos on Krypton into an invisible, intangible condition where they can drift about at will. They can not be seen or detected, but they can go anywhere and observe whatever they want. This is your idea of a more humane punishment than execution. But did ( Read more... )

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"Crime Wave," the 24th episode of THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN.


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This is from that epic "The Origin of the Justice League" in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA# 9, February 1962. Written by Gardner Fox, art by Mike Sekowsky and Bernard Sachs. Now, Silver Age comics (even more than today) regarded the laws of physics as mere suggestions. You know. "Maybe you shouldn't create matter out of nothing, perhaps inertia would ( Read more... )

It's November 20, 1940 and the first Superman balloon appears in the Macy's parade. He doesn't look too comfortable. I'd expect a confident smile or a stern no-nonsense glare, but he just looks as if maybe he had too much to eat or needed a nap.
Oh well, we all have our off days.


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This is from "Superman Returns to Krypton," in SUPERMAN# 61, December 1949. I've read quite a few Golden Age Superman stories, nowhere near all of them of course, and it never occurred to me that in the original canon he had no idea where he came from. In the original stories, baby Kal-El (not that he knew that name either) was thrown clear when ( Read more... )

This of course is George Reeves in the 1950s ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN show. The springboard gave his take-offs a certain dynamic quality that just didn't occur with the smoother gentler wire-assisted lifts used for Peter Pan.


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The Legion of Super-Pets!


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What an evocative phrase, it's just perfect. Whether it was publisher Henry Ralston, editor John Nanovic or writer Lester Dent who came up with the name in 1932 when planning the new Doc Savage series, they hit just the right note. The Fortress was introduced in the very first novel and mentioned in nearly every one which followed, yet we the ( Read more... )