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mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-07 09:56:00

Entry tags:

char: lois lane, char: superman/kal-l/clark kent, creator: jerry siegel, creator: joe shuster, creator: paul cassidy

Clark Kent and Lois Lane Cover the War in Europe

Just got a really fun Giant-sized Superman Comic.
This is originally from Action Comics #22 (March, 1940) and is reprinted in: Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-31 (October-November 1974);
and in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #2 (1998).

Jerry Siegel (signed) (Script), Joe Shuster; Paul Cassidy (Pencils), Paul Cassidy (Inks)

(Reprint info and credits from Grand Comics Database Project.)

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	sherkahn 2009-06-07 10:09 am UTC (link)
	This must be the guy they are resurrecting in Blackest Night. (Reply to this)

	brandiweed.livejournal.com 2009-06-07 10:20 am UTC (link)
	Lita Laverne, huh? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	kenn_el 2009-06-07 01:16 pm UTC (link)
	You can't have too many LL's! Maybe she can be the new Superwoman! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	besamim 2009-06-07 10:26 am UTC (link)
	Lita Laverne looks indistinguishable from Lois. Separated at birth? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-06-07 12:42 pm UTC (link)
	And only one got to live in Laverne Manor. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-06-07 05:36 pm UTC (link)
	What a twist! ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-06-08 04:32 am UTC (link)
	Ah, but SHE is wearing white opera gloves, you see. Lois NEVER wears white opera gloves. It's as plain as the nose on your face! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	okkult3000 2009-06-07 10:57 am UTC (link)
	Superman needs to wear a tophat more often. Then again, so does everyone else. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-06-07 11:42 am UTC (link)
	And a monocle. And one of those swirly mustaches. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	queen_marshed 2009-06-07 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	Supes looks pretty smashing in that suit. Definitely can't imagine present-day Supes saying things like "Bash your brains out", but I guess back then he wasn't such a boy-scout yet. (Reply to this) (Thread)

besamim
2009-06-07 12:37 pm UTC (link)

No, he definitely was not. Like other early Golden Age super-powered (and non-powered) heroes Superman, though always on the side of law, order and social justice, was capable of brutality (and a certain grim pleasure in it) that would be unthinkable for the character just years later. He was willing to kill; in one of the earliest Superman stories, he sent several gangsters out the window to their death. Just as Batman in some of his earliest tales used guns, and expressed satisfaction over the demise of crooks even when he didn't directly kill them ("A fitting end for his kind" and "Death...to Doctor Death" were typical end-of-story lines for him).

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	bluefall 2009-06-07 12:57 pm UTC (link)
	... she's not a very good spy, is she. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-06-07 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	Before the Cold War, a "spy" was basically whatever the writer wanted them to be. Usually a plot device. Then WWII happened and the Cold War, and people started realizing the narrative potential of a spy as a protagonist. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Thanks for posting this! proteus_lives 2009-06-07 02:02 pm UTC (link)
	I love the original, "Crazy Bastard" era of Superman! (Reply to this)

	roflstomper 2009-06-07 03:34 pm UTC (link)
	Did he just threaten to bash the guy's brains in if he didn't talk? ...I want this version of Superman! (Reply to this)

	superfan1 2009-06-07 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	Clark look jazzy in that suit and love the manhandling superman does at the end. Batman would of been proud. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-06-07 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	That made me inhale coca-cola:) Yes. And he probably taught him to do it. (Reply to this) (Parent)