tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post2467629749363956464..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Reign of the Supermen #400: Superman BalloonsSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-47219323828371488732017-05-06T04:19:16.731-03:002017-05-06T04:19:16.731-03:00I'm looking for comic book where superman is f...I'm looking for comic book where superman is fat or inflated into a balloon <br />Would love to one day be sealed in a parade balloon with the face cut out and mine in its place Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191478394529703021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-88751526870590066302011-11-29T01:17:08.185-04:002011-11-29T01:17:08.185-04:00Wait, what am I saying? I'm on the Internet, o...Wait, what am I saying? I'm on the Internet, of course I have a way to research it. And I did, and my memory was correct. You can see the aforementioned Hembeck-style Superman balloon <a href="http://guttertalkcomicsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/continuity-conundrum-dc-comics-presents.html" rel="nofollow">on the Gutter Talk blog</a> or much larger <a href="dccomicsartists.com/bronzeage/AmbushBug-DCP52-09.jpg" rel="nofollow">here, via dccomicsartists.com</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-1649882161306387132011-11-29T01:07:52.725-04:002011-11-29T01:07:52.725-04:00This is off the top of my head, and I have no way ...This is off the top of my head, and I have no way of researching it, but wasn't there a Hembeck-style Superman balloon in the issue of DC Comics Presents that introduced Ambush Bug?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-66911869272218588632011-11-27T19:22:16.697-04:002011-11-27T19:22:16.697-04:00Superman can save Metropolis with one arm tied beh...Superman can save Metropolis with one arm tied behind his back anyway.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-44672372599315688972011-11-27T18:32:12.284-04:002011-11-27T18:32:12.284-04:00That 1987 balloon was pretty cool, but as I recall...That 1987 balloon was pretty cool, but as I recall, one of the arms was deflated by the time it got to Harold Square! But still, I was pretty excited to see it on TV that year.Bill D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18013121134005443309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-87235498478771596832011-11-24T19:54:32.737-04:002011-11-24T19:54:32.737-04:00Boy, that Kal-El is full of hot air!
I don't ...Boy, that Kal-El is full of hot air!<br /><br />I don't know if the story within features as Superman balloon, but there's one on the cover of <a href="http://littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/ten/supermantmos132.jpg" rel="nofollow"><i>Superman: The Man of Steel</i> #132</a>, along with everybody's favorite Thanksgiving guest, Mr. Mxyzptlk!Bullyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-483757273278440352011-11-24T09:57:33.652-04:002011-11-24T09:57:33.652-04:00That mollusc business is priceless, so madly rando...That mollusc business is priceless, so madly random. I've just been trawling the Grand Comics Database for another blimp story I remember, but it seems not to have been cover-featured. Or I imagined it.<br /><br />And after seeing the cover for Adventure Comics #274 for the first time, I'm too freaked out to go on ... the Kents more appalled by their son's shirking of responsibility than by the terrifying monster:<br />http://www.comics.org/issue/15737/cover/4/<br /><br />Sorry, derailing ... I just had to share.Martin Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09574149543260175962noreply@blogger.com