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jlbarnett ([info]jlbarnett) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-30 13:04:00

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Entry tags:char: jor-el, char: thomas wayne, publisher: dc comics, title: superman/batman

Superman/Batman 50: World's Finest Dads
You know we need to get more stuff from the old lj mentioned here.

This is from Superman/Batman 50 where we discover that improbably Jor-El and Thomas Wayne met.

It's a 38 page book I've got twelve and 2/3's below the cut. Basically Thomas's entire Kryptonian adventure.



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This is the trimmed page. The first panel is just Thomas thinking he heard Martha yelling from the car before he passed out.

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There was actually an arc in the Superman comics where we see how his life would have turned out if he went to other planets. In that one when he went to Thanagar they manipulated his powers so his supersenses were enhanced at the expense of everything else so he could help create a police state.

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As I said at the time, this was a kind of Silver Age-ish story. It's never going to be mentioned again so it doesn't change anything. All in all it's a good story.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-05-30 08:41 pm UTC (link)
I think I preferred the story in Robinson's Starman when we found out that it was Jack Knight who told Jor-El about Earth after a bit of accidental time travel.

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[info]crinosg
2009-05-30 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I like the scene where Despair of the endless convinces Rao to design Krypton to explode one day, but allow a sole survivor to mourn for the planet.

Its like everyone and their uncle had a hand in creating Superman.

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[info]neuhallidae
2009-05-30 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Oh, was that the same one with Oa in it?

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[info]lieut_kettch
2009-05-31 06:02 am UTC (link)
Maltus, I think. Dream's lover there was a Maltusian female who could use the Starheart, IIRC.

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[info]volksjager
2009-05-30 09:26 pm UTC (link)
Issue number please :) !!!

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[info]crinosg
2009-05-30 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Don't have one, just saw it at the old site once.

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[info]aaron_bourque
2009-05-30 09:46 pm UTC (link)
It's in the Endless Nights special Gaiman did a few years ago. The story referenced is basically the secret origin of Gaiman's Sandman.

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[info]arbre_rieur
2009-05-30 10:24 pm UTC (link)
And let's not forget the one where the Guardians of the Universe secretly hooked up Jor-El and Lara to produce a child with ultimate genetic perfection.

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[info]volksjager
2009-05-30 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Issue number please :) ????

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[info]crinosg
2009-05-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Don't have one, just saw it on the old site.

It was basically a throwaway panel anyways, not a full story. Just Despair and Rao sitting in a park and shooting the shit.

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[info]icon_uk
2009-05-31 06:05 am UTC (link)
Starman #51

Has a great scene of Jack outraging Jor-El's father (IIRC named Seig-El, which is kind of neat) during interrogation. Seig-El is a Byrne-era Kryptonian of the old school, arrogant, supercilious and condescending towards any alien race who is so inferior. When he explains that Kryptonians breed by computers gene-mixing samples from "parents", Jack smugly replies that on Earth, "we do it the old fashioned way; sweaty and squirty".

Seig-El is appalled, Jor-el, his rebellious young son is intrigued by the courageous and rebellious people of this planet, and helps Jack and co to escape, in return for the co-ordinates to this Earth place.

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[info]sistermagpie
2009-05-30 08:51 pm UTC (link)
I don't much like the idea of the probe being the source of the Wayne billions, but besides that I love this. Everyone's adorable. Love that Thomas Wayne looks so old-fashioned. But I especially love that last shot of Superman with the Kents. He's just a midwestern farmboy who loves his ma and pa. And is really big.

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[info]jlbarnett
2009-05-30 09:24 pm UTC (link)
well, they were already rich before it. That just made them richer.

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[info]pyrotwilight
2009-05-30 09:58 pm UTC (link)
I'm interested in seeing how this affects the upcoming Jor-El and Jonathan Kent Brave and the Bold story that'll be up soon.

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[info]werehawk
2009-05-31 01:10 pm UTC (link)
Superman/Batman is not canon

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[info]jlbarnett
2009-05-31 01:37 pm UTC (link)
It's canon. Supergirl first showed up there. And the Japanese kid TOyman. It's just easily ignored canon, it possesses so many reset buttons

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[info]werehawk
2009-05-31 01:53 pm UTC (link)
DiDio has repeatedly said that what happens in S/B is separate from the DCU

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[info]thandrak
2009-05-31 02:55 pm UTC (link)
It's the last outpost of Hypertime. Things in it are only in canon if they get referred to in the larger universe.

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[info]merseybeatler
2009-05-30 10:14 pm UTC (link)
Heh, this is weird.....but does anyone else think that Thomas Wayne looks peculiarly hot with that curly Victorian mustache?

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[info]schala_kid
2009-05-30 10:26 pm UTC (link)
"And if I found him... I'd raise him as I would my own"

D'awwww, would like an elsewhere were this happened, oh and Speeding Bullets doesn't count.

Bruce and Clark are so brothers, I loved this story even if it isn't really canon it was cute.

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[info]vignettelante
2009-05-31 12:49 am UTC (link)
Aw, that was sweet.

Also: "This isn't impossible. This is science." "Science."

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-05-31 03:14 am UTC (link)
SCIENCE!

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[info]ex_octopusso248
2009-05-31 01:27 am UTC (link)
I have the sudden urge to draw Bruce with pigtails, deadpan "Daddy always wanted a girl."

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[info]jkcarrier
2009-05-31 08:39 am UTC (link)
It is kinda Silver Age-y...although in the Silver Age, Thomas and Jor-El would've had some kind of adventure together instead of just sitting around talking. Missed opportunity, IMHO. Bonus points if they could work Hippolyta in there somehow. ;-)

It also reminds me of Elliot S! Maggin's novel "Last Son of Krypton", where Jor-El makes contact with Albert Einstein, and Einstein is the one who decides that the Kents would make the ideal foster parents, and arranges things so that they'll be in the right place to see Kal-El's rocket arrive.

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