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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-08 18:41:00

Entry tags:

char: superman/clark kent, char: terri cross

The Clark Kent Fan Club

The first appearance (I think) of the Clark Kent Fan Club...

After the Fan Club ambush him at the workplace, Clark flees them and uses a back door as his exit.

At the party, every chapter of the club has turned up.

With his x-ray vision, Clark spots someone planting a bomb underneath the dance floor. (It's someone working for a rival disco.)

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	jlroberson 2009-07-09 02:00 am UTC (link)
	Well, there's about a dozen icons waiting to happen. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-07-09 02:04 am UTC (link)
	I remember Clark dancing being a very popular one at old S_D. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-07-09 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Dan Rather wishes he had this sort of fanbase. (Reply to this)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-07-09 02:07 am UTC (link)
	"Go Clark go! Shake your booty!" Clark hadn't heard that since the last JLA Christmas party. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	superfan1 2009-07-09 02:14 am UTC (link)
	Ah that time plastic man spike the punch bowl, with that unknown alien alcohol he got from lobo right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bariman1987 2009-07-09 03:58 am UTC (link)
	The one that got Metamorpho and Shift drunk in Outsiders? Yup. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-07-09 07:04 am UTC (link)
	Is that their way of knowing that Batman doesn't need anymore punch? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	shanejayell 2009-07-09 02:13 am UTC (link)
	He looks like he's 'riverdancing' Clark Kent: Lord of the Dance! (Reply to this)

	darklorelei 2009-07-09 02:47 am UTC (link)
	It's always nice to get context for especially cracky icons! (Reply to this)

	parsimonia 2009-07-09 02:52 am UTC (link)
	I just need to check: how many pages is this story in total? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-09 03:17 am UTC (link)
	Eleven. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-07-09 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blake_reitz 2009-07-09 02:59 am UTC (link)
	"Besides, those starry-eyed girls will go along with anything you say!" Oh Jimmy. (Reply to this)

	porringer 2009-07-09 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Aha ha, Jimmy making excuses to join the fangirls swarming around John Travolta. That is some dancing. Yup. And the fans leave shortly after... (Reply to this)

fredneil.livejournal.com
2009-07-09 03:09 am UTC (link)

Aww, poor Terri. It looks like she really put her heart into the meeting and everyone leaves for a John Travolta lookalike. (She probably also laid out a decent amount of money booking a disco for the meeting, too). Come to think of it, it can't have made Clark feel too flattered to know that a real Clark Kent ranks lower than a Travolta lookalike.

That still leaves one question unanswered. What on earth were they playing? That's a pretty complicated melody (octave range, almost all of it sixteenth notes) for a disco song.

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	jlroberson 2009-07-10 01:22 am UTC (link)
	I'm assuming that they didn't think anyone who read it could read music and just wanted lots of notes. I don't read it myself, so I'd love to know what that melody IS. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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fredneil.livejournal.com
2009-07-10 07:23 pm UTC (link)

I tried playing through it. I don't recognize the melody, but the first part is fairly coherent if you play it in B and keep the A natural throughout. My guess is that the artist just copied from whatever sheet music he had at hand. After the break for Clark's head, it looks like he's copying from a completely different piece. (I didn't even try playing that one. I have no idea what key it's in, but it's definitely not B.)

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schala_kid
2009-07-09 04:14 am UTC (link)

Were news anchors popular back in the day? I can't think of anyone that has a fan club, let alone 23!

I like this it's funny and I love the fact that there isn't superdickery in it either (Clark is actually nice to Terri). I haven't seen this issue in its entirety but does Superman make an appearance? Because I just love when comics focus on Clark Kent reporter rather than Supes, that's why I loved AC's Up, Up and Away run with the depowered Clark and wanted him to stay depowered for a little while longer.

The thing that bothered me most though

"You win this blue Ribbon!"

That's not even blue!

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	aaron_bourque 2009-07-09 06:07 am UTC (link)
	First prize ribbons traditionally were blue, so it became slang for first prize. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	khamelea 2009-07-09 05:08 am UTC (link)
	"Ed? Jimmy? The cross-dressers!" I swear, that's how I read it at first. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-10 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Jimmy would be better served by a dress than that leisure suit. Good Christ, I can't believe people used to wear those. I grew up in the South, where it appears no one wore them, because I never once saw them in the 70s, except in comics & TV, growing up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-07-09 06:10 am UTC (link)
	The "Clarkie Kent Club" theme has one letter too few . . . (Reply to this) (Thread)

	darklorelei 2009-07-09 08:09 am UTC (link)
	It actually does have the right number of letters, but the space is in the wrong spot. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kusonaga 2009-07-09 07:53 am UTC (link)
	Amazing. Thanks for posting. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-10 03:47 am UTC (link)
	No prob! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-09 08:50 am UTC (link)
	"Go, Clark, go! Shake your bootie!" OK, that is funny. And I'm beginning to wonder if EVERY member of the Daily Planet staff had a fanclub. Jimmy Olsen did - I think Lois Lane did - now Clark Kent, assumedly the dweebiest employee there? What's next? A Perry White fanclub? A fanclub for Milton the mailboy? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cricharddavies 2009-07-09 03:21 pm UTC (link)
	Technically, this isn't a fanclub for Clark Kent, reporter for the daily planet. This is a fanclub for Clark Kent, TV news anchorman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-07-09 08:47 pm UTC (link)

True enough, but that was only a temporary change - my point is that every member of Superman's supporting cast (and according to the rest of the world, Clark is one of them) seems to have gotten his or her own fanclub at one time or another. And since almost every member of his supporting cast seems to be centered around his alias as a mild-mannered reporter, functionally that translates into the staff of the Daily Planet, even if he doesn't happen to be working there at the moment.

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	cricharddavies 2009-07-09 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	I just love the way you shrug off a status quo that lasted for fifteen or so years as a temporary change. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-07-09 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	Well, it WAS, wasn't it? He's not still there, is he? Sure, he spent a fair amount of time as a newscaster, but he also spent a fair amount of time as an electric blue zappy-man, a guy with a split personality, and a dead guy. Since none of those stuck (thank goodness), I continue to view them as 'temporary changes'. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cricharddavies 2009-07-09 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	You know, the scariest part of this is ... that song scans. As long as you sing it C L A R K I/ E K E N T! (Reply to this)

	khaosworks 2009-07-09 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, Terri Cross. Whatever happened to her? She was pretty cute. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-07-10 03:46 am UTC (link)
	My guess is that it wasn't so much that she went somewhere as that writers weren't coming up with much in the way of stories for the Clark Kent Fan Club. And then the Crisis hit, and a fan club for Clark probably didn't fit Byrne's vision... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-07-09 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	The best thing about this age in contest is seeing how different writers worked disco into the story. (Reply to this)

	ex_stig213 2009-07-09 06:22 pm UTC (link)
	The Stephen Colbert of his age? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-10 03:47 am UTC (link)
	Bronze Age Clark TOTALLY looks like Colbert, and in particular the dancing scene. Or maybe not: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/216595/january-21-2009/stephen-s-remix-challenge (Reply to this) (Parent)

	salad_barbarian 2009-07-10 05:59 am UTC (link)
	He used Disco to save the day. I have no words to my feelings. (Reply to this)

	jcbaggee 2009-07-10 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	"Clark, you win this blue ribbon! Don't question the color, just take my word for it." (Reply to this)