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Incidentally, 'The Origin Of The Superman-Batman Team!' demonstrates just how 'elastic' DC was with continuity*. In this strip, Bruce Wayne's parents are still alive (the Waynes having moved to Smallville) and Bruce is a similar age to Clark Kent, not the younger kid he was at the time of Thomas and Martha Wayne's death. Bruce also displays an 'amazing mind' and is a 'walking encyclopaedia', as well as possessing an 'amazingly athletic body' (his own, natch) - attributes which weren't developed (over a period of years) until after his parents were shot, not before. (Interesting that the mothers of Bruce and Clark share the same first name.)
(*There are at least three different versions of how they first met, though when one was later reprinted, some lettering was amended to change the story into how they first discovered each other's secret identities.)
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8 comments:
Fun thought: the "King Krypton" story is from 1958 and MAY have been a response to the re-release of the 1933 KING KONG in 1956-- which was the last general release of that movie to theaters in the 20th century.
Entirely possible, GP, and it was also in line with Julius Schwartz's and Irwin Donenfeld's policy to have gorillas on the covers because they believed it increased sales. DC had been doing this since Strange Adventures #8 in 1951.
True about the gorilla-trope, I should have specified that using the name "King Krypton" was the main similarity between the story and the re-released movie. About seven years Weisinger launched yet another belated movie-homage, this time KING KONG VS GODZILLA, when JIMMY OLSEN spotlighted a story about Jimmy making a movie about a fight between Titano and the Flame-Dragon of Krypton.
Don't remember whether I ever read that issue or not, GP. If not, maybe one day I'll get around to it.
Very nice comic I love the 1/6d stamp as well. I'm a big fan of these giant sized DC comics . I like the fact these stories werent so strict on fhow certain things happened like Batman meeting Superman and just told axstory.
Back then, of course, McS, comics were primarily for kids and consistent continuity wasn't regarded as that big a deal. It wasn't until older readers came onboard as stories gradually became a tad less fanciful that more attention was paid to such matters.
That looks to be a very nice copy you've got there, Kid. And I love the 1/6d T&P stamp. No way that I could have afforded that or persuaded my parents to buy a comic for me at that price in the early 60s, of course. Good for you that you've been able to get a prime copy now.
I never owned it at the time, B, though I likely saw ads for it in various DC mags. (I'd have to check to see if it was in any mags I know I had and have since acquired replacements for.) What I like about it (and other '60s mags) is that it's a 'gateway' into a vanished age.
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