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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
 
And here's a series of comic book covers that proves this!
 

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Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
 
I am so confused.
 

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Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
 


(at kat ) Not the ridiculous comics.
 

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Posted by TheHumanTarget (Member # 7129) on :
 
Wow...I always that he was super...
 

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Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
 
Stupid question... did they replace the text in the bubbles, or is it real?

-Katarain
 

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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
 
It's completely real.
 

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Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
 
Is he evil a lot?
 

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Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
 
The question should be... was he ever really that good to begin with?
 

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Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
 
Most of the covers are from the Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen spinoff comic books. It was pretty common to have the cover featuring Superman doing something "out of character" and really evil to get people to buy the book out of curiousity. Trying to provoke a "OMG! Why's Superman doing THAT?" reaction. But they did it so much it doesn't really seem out of character eventually.

That site has other categories, too. There's some hilariously offensive ones from WW2, back before the days of PC.

--Enigmatic
 

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Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
 
If I remember correctly from a previous discussion of these covers from another message board...

Someone would make one of these paradox covers, and then the writer/artist would have fun making them into a story that makes sense. The story on the inside almost never contained the scene on the cover beyond a passing glance.

Some newer comics are this way as well.

For instance, I have this comic:
http://www.superdickery.com/dick/81.html

Inside, Superman and the Legion of Superheroes have one of those "mistaken identity" super-hero fights. They mistake superman for someone who had attacked them recently before this comic. The team fights superman for a bit, and superman pretty much gets his butt kicked, until the Legion realizes who they are fighting. So they stop beating superman up, and they talk . Nowhere in the comic does anything resembling the cover take place.

Its mostly a marketing thing .
 

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Posted by Bean Counter (Member # 6001) on :
 
Wow those were great, how much do the comics sell for these days? Did Superman and Lois really have a kid or were those just 'What if?' type stories?

BC
 

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Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
 
Where's that rivka?
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
<-- not a comics fan
 

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Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :
 

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Originally posted by Bean Counter:
Wow those were great, how much do the comics sell for these days? Did Superman and Lois really have a kid or were those just 'What if?' type stories?

BC

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DC has had so many different universes and restarts that they make the Highlander movies look logical.
 

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Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
 
http://www.superdickery.com/dick/15.html

That one is great.

He does have one of the worst superhero disguises ever.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Oh! That's the cover from the one where they explain it's all a Jedi Mind Trick (or the equivalent), right?
 

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Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
 
http://www.superdickery.com/dick/25.html

My fave.
 

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Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :
 
"Robin...What have I done to you?"
 

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Posted by Chris Kidd (Member # 2646) on :
 
this is funny

The stylist


 

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Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :
 
That's great.
 

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Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
 
And did you notice how well-coiffed the stylist himself was? I bet he can accessorize like Olympia Dukakis.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Oh. My. Gosh.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Oh, my.

*laughs so hard she cries*

http://www.superdickery.com/dick/72.html

And if that's not bad enough:

http://www.superdickery.com/dick/82.html
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
But he comes by it naturally.

Oh, ouch!
 

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Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
 
These are pretty good too:

http://www.superdickery.com/dick/17.html

http://www.superdickery.com/dick/112.html
 

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Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
 
http://www.superdickery.com/seduction/13.html

So.Very.Wrong


 

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Posted by scottneb (Member # 676) on :
 
Man, Rico. That first link is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time.

Oh! you edited it? Or was that a Mod edit?
 

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Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
 
Hehe sorry yeah I edited it, here it is for those who want to see it:

http://www.superdickery.com/seduction/3.html
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 

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Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
Oh. My. Gosh.

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Originally posted by Dagonee:
This one linked earlier gives me a chance to ask a question:

The Kryptonians were evidently capable of interstellar flight. In all that time, they must have gotten to a yellow sun. Once they noticed they had super strength, super-speed, nigh-invulnerability, photographic high-speed memory, flight, x-ray vision, and all the rest, wouldn't some of them have migrated?

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I can't tell you (because I don't know) what the comics have done with this sort of thing.

However, the usual explanation I've heard in L&C circles for why Jor-El and Lara sent off Kal-El (aka Clark/Supes) but didn't come with him is that Kryptonian interstellar abilities were only just getting to the point that small ships (big enough to hold a baby or a dog, but not an adult or two) were possible. This makes little sense to me, but hey -- it's comic-book physics!

(It also breaks down when we look at the New Kryptonians and their ilk.)
 

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Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
 
http://www.superdickery.com/other/142.html

Beatle Craze!
 

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