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needle's new offical dc blog! number one Birds Of Prey (1999) #8 fan you will never be as insane about it as me.

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this is from New Adventure Comics #12, the comic 'Federal Men' by Siegel and Shuster (which fellow golden age enthusiasts will have clocked by the art style). the story seemed interesting enough but i only skimmed it as i was reading so imagine my surprise when i see the name 'Jor-L' here, about 2 years before supermans debut i believe. The strip itself is very science fiction, involves federal men (surprise surprise) and the main guy is named steve carson i think. theres also a 'proto-lois' in the form of a headstrong reporter lady an issue or two before this one. Shuster and Siegel def had tropes they liked ig. never seen anyone mention this so if it is true that they reused this name for Superman's father that's cool trivia i can truthfully claim to have found out myself

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Animated cartoons are coming more and more into their own guys! Who would've thought?

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WHO

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ive talked about this before but something very interesting about old superman/boy content is that there is a clear distinction between 'superman' and 'clark kent' as identities and people. in some golden age superman stories (ill add examples later when i remember them hopefully) where scenarios play out in which he realises he can reveal himself he simply gives up being clark kent completely. in stories where the plots deal with him imagining marrying lois, he doesn't imagine clark kent marrying lois lane- superman marries lois lane and clark kent is retired forever. this is also true of things like his journalism career- he likes it sure, but for the most part its meant to help him be superman, its not like an innate passion. and again, in stories where he discards clark he leaves it as well. and in this example you also see this idea of 'no further reason to pose as 'timid' Clark Kent', as well as Lana literally saying she liked him 'as if' he were a real person. importantly he doesn't use his kryptonian/birth name of 'kal-el' as his 'real name', rather the identity and name of superboy exist as the true face beneath the convenient mask of clark kent. this example specifically is cool i think bcs this is Adventure Comics #235, dated Feb 26 1957 on locg. around this late 50s period in superboy stories (idk if tis true in superman ones as well but its been nearly a year since i read 50s superman soz) theres a rise in stories where he actually wants to save his clark kent identity; besides the obvious benefits of having it, theres this evolution where theres more acknowledgement by him of his love of earth as his home and his adoptive parents as well. its clear as time went on that attitudes changed a lot around the writing of the character until we got the more human version today, where clark loves being clark. im not qualified enough for a psychoanalysis of the character (maybe in the future...) but i think there's a whole bunch of stuff to think about with this version of the character. firstly thinking about gender norms theres obviously this thread (played for humor a lot def) of paragon of american manhood/boyhood superman/superboy having to cover his identity by acting like a weak 'sissy'. in that light its like well of course hed love to leave clark kent behind, why would he want to go on acting like a weakling if he had an out to be the bastion of american masculinity that he is. i think theres something to be said of his origin as well on that note..

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the thing i was going with when thinking about his origin is obviously its heavily influenced by the time/ppl that came up with him. like hello jewish immigrants/ww2/champion of the oppressed. doesnt take a genius to piece that together. but hes like the perfect assimilated immigrant-grew up there, with american parents, in a perfectly american small town. in that sense i think his clark and superboy identities can represent the two sides of being this type of immigrant. clark kent, the almost perfectly assimilated all american white passing white name boy next door. superboy the immigrant that uses the gifts of his homeland and wears their garb, and is loved bcs he gives everything he has in service to this great land of the free. if u were to go further with this then i think the evolution of him wanting to preserve his clark identity is also crucial in that otherwise he as a character considered that assimilated version of him the 'fake' version, that he would leave behind if he could live freely without having to hide.

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ive talked about this before but something very interesting about old superman/boy content is that there is a clear distinction between 'superman' and 'clark kent' as identities and people. in some golden age superman stories (ill add examples later when i remember them hopefully) where scenarios play out in which he realises he can reveal himself he simply gives up being clark kent completely. in stories where the plots deal with him imagining marrying lois, he doesn't imagine clark kent marrying lois lane- superman marries lois lane and clark kent is retired forever. this is also true of things like his journalism career- he likes it sure, but for the most part its meant to help him be superman, its not like an innate passion. and again, in stories where he discards clark he leaves it as well. and in this example you also see this idea of 'no further reason to pose as 'timid' Clark Kent', as well as Lana literally saying she liked him 'as if' he were a real person. importantly he doesn't use his kryptonian/birth name of 'kal-el' as his 'real name', rather the identity and name of superboy exist as the true face beneath the convenient mask of clark kent. this example specifically is cool i think bcs this is Adventure Comics #235, dated Feb 26 1957 on locg. around this late 50s period in superboy stories (idk if tis true in superman ones as well but its been nearly a year since i read 50s superman soz) theres a rise in stories where he actually wants to save his clark kent identity; besides the obvious benefits of having it, theres this evolution where theres more acknowledgement by him of his love of earth as his home and his adoptive parents as well. its clear as time went on that attitudes changed a lot around the writing of the character until we got the more human version today, where clark loves being clark. im not qualified enough for a psychoanalysis of the character (maybe in the future...) but i think there's a whole bunch of stuff to think about with this version of the character. firstly thinking about gender norms theres obviously this thread (played for humor a lot def) of paragon of american manhood/boyhood superman/superboy having to cover his identity by acting like a weak 'sissy'. in that light its like well of course hed love to leave clark kent behind, why would he want to go on acting like a weakling if he had an out to be the bastion of american masculinity that he is. i think theres something to be said of his origin as well on that note..

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uncalled for

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a tiny american town having a big clock named Big Bob seems realistic enough

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why bro lookin at me like i did it

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hes so cutie patootie

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i would like to draw everyones attention to terry sloane aka mr terrific bcs im still not over his origin story. for those unawares his origin is that he was a boy prodigy who became a billionaire businessman etc who then tried to kill himself bcs. get this. he was just too good at everything. which made life too boring. so he tried to jump off a bridge but ended up saving this woman wendy and helping her and becoming a superhero etc. HIS ORIGIN IS HE WAS TOO GOOD AT EVERYTHING

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'comics are a BOYS THING' truthers in shambles rn

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more of this

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NEED this on a shirt

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have u guys missed my clois posting 🥹

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THE FAMOUS PANEL!!!!!! someone posted this ages ago and its been floating around since then. it's from the first issue of Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane. art by my goat Kurt Schaffenberger who did a lot of work on superman and iconically on this run as well. his lois is such a recognisable silver age icon :3

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more henry boltinoff content bcs u (yes you) need to become more henry boltinoff pilled NOW!!!!!!

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retribution for the fat lois story