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I no longer recall exactly when I purchased my original Action Comics #367 - it could've been anytime between 1979 and 1981, maybe 1980. It was a pretty beat-up copy so at some stage I bought a replacement, but I inadvertently damaged it in some way and dispensed with it. I don't think it was too long after acquiring my original (which I yet own), which was fairly old when I got it, but I made a mental note to obtain a second replacement at the earliest opportunity.
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| Curiously, Superman looks less like Superman than Clark does |
40-plus years later, I finally got around to it and a much-better condition issue arrived at Castel Crivens earlier today. Aah, it feels good to have ticked another 'still-to-do' task off the list and I'm happy as a pig in sh-erbert. I'll hang on to my first copy though, seeing as how I've had it so long, but it's now been relegated to that of 'spare', while the newer issue assumes the position of main copy in the scheme of things.
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| Dang! That Supergirl certainly is hot stuff! |
Anyway, seeing as you're here, I might as well show you a couple of interior images to whet your curiosity, should you actually be curious - so feast your eyes. Before that, however, look at the cover. I know it's only meant to be symbolic, but given the close proximity of Superman to Supergirl, they wouldn't have time to exchange that dialogue before Supes crashes through the glass dome. (I just can't help noticing these things.) Enjoy!
I've mentioned before that there was only one shop near me that sold DC comics and the titles were limited. I owned a few Superman issues which would have been early 80s but this wasn't one of them. Regarding your observation on the conversation between Superman and Supergirl, I had a similar thought about your previous post. How does a blind Matt Murdock make his Daredevil costume? And how does he know it's red? He can't really ask someone? The mysteries of the Marvel Universe.....
ReplyDeleteHow Matt made his costume is explained in DD #1, M. "I'm no Betsy Ross, but I should be able to handle this! Lucky my touch is so sensitive! I can even blend the colours, for each coloured fabric has a different feel to me!" (His costume was yellow, black, and red at first.)
DeleteHow the superheroes and supervillains acquire their costumes is indeed a mystery. They all seem to be expert clothes-designers and tailors unless they place orders with a superhero costume factory in Mexico in which case America's superhero/villain community will now have to pay extra for their costumes thanks to Trump's tariffs.
ReplyDeleteI think some of them are screen-printed, CJ, especially those of the heroes. The villains terrorise some poor soul who's handy with a needle and thread. Is there no end to their villainy?!
DeleteI've read the DD origin story but obviously forgotten that detail or more likely the fact was readily accepted by my teenage-self. Now as an older, wiser teenager, I am beginning to question things which stretch the realms of plausibility. A blind superhero I can live with but 'different coloured fabrics have a different feel'? I'm calling BS on that one, Kid. Still doesn't explain how he knew what the colours were even if they felt different.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he didn't know, M, which is why his costume was mainly yellow? (He'd have to wash it all the time because of the dirt - not that he'd see it.) However, I'd assume he asked an assistant what colours various fabrics were in the shop where he bought them while holding them, which is how he knew which fabrics were which colours. Obviously, revealing that particular detail wasn't necessary for the story.
DeleteAnd maybe Superman and Supergirl were talking at super-speed. 😁
ReplyDeleteIn which case, we wouldn't have been able to hear them. And as Superman was probably flying faster than the speed of sound, it wouldn't have made any difference.
DeleteWhich is why they kindly show us their words in a speech bubble and Superman and Supergirl are super-lip reading. Or maybe we should just go along with it for entertainment's sake and not think too deeply about it.
ReplyDeleteAll their conversations are shown in speech bubbles, though, so that we can 'hear' what they're saying. And even if they could 'talk' at super-speed, would they be able to 'listen' at super-speed? Doubt it. And remember, I did say at the beginning that I realised it was meant to be a 'symbolic' scene - as so many scenes in comics are. Not think too deeply about it? Right back atcha! (Hee hee.)
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