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From "The Story of Superman, Junior" in Action Comics #232, September 1957. Curt Swan pencils, Stan Kaye inks.
Info from Grand Comics Database
One of the unintentionally hilarious things about the original "Saga of the Super Sons" is that Bruce Wayne Jr. and only Bruce Wayne Jr. is written to speak in a torrent of hip 70s slang, especially when speaking to and about his good buddy Clark Kent Junior. Which means there's a laughable number of moments like this:
And this:
And of course this:
Yes, he is talking about Clark.
If you told me this series was intentionally written as an extended metaphor for these two secretly being gay together in the era of free love in a way their uptight traditionalist straitlaced fathers were too repressed to understand, I would believe you.
ACTION COMICS (vol. 1) #232 (September, 1957). Cover by Curt Swan.
Hey, that ain't Jon!
So I've started reading Saga of the Super-Sons. Not that one. This one:
And it's taking everything in me not to just straight-up live blog it because there's little things on every page that I want to comment on and blab about with people, it's really interesting.
Like, I can't put my finger on it because I don't know enough about art and I know even less about hair, but there's something about how the boys are drawn in contrast to their fathers where they should look exactly the same, their hair is the same length and parted the same way and everything, and yet, somehow, the Juniors are just so... 70s in comparison, even in the superhero suits.
Or about how they do this interesting thing where the mothers/wives are present but always framed so their faces are off-panel or in shadow so nobody's ship gets sunk (though if you ask me it's kind of obvious Mrs. Kent is supposed to be Lois -- we see her from behind and she's got black hair, unlike Lori or Lana)
Side note, this page made me decide that Bruce Jr. sounds exactly like Zagreus from the Hades series. Also, look at this horrible trick he (maybe accidentally) plays on his mother it's hilarious:
This series is fun. And gay.
Not kidding about the gay thing.
as normal as it gets
