This week, three comics that feature Superman, though only the first of these panels actually does.
From "Luthor's Incense Menace" by Jerry Siegel , Joe Shuster and Wayne Boring, Superman #5 (June 1940)
This issue introduces Superman's total recall, but in a later story, THIS ability to change his facial features! It's not just the glasses then! Of course, the power was never seen again.*
*Except the times kind readers highlighted in the comments.
From Zatara: "The Jagtooth Gold Mine" by Gardner Fox and Fred Guardineer, Actions Comics #26 (July 1940)
Man, Zatara's strip has the weirdest visuals...
From “Johnny Thunderbolt at the World's Fair” by John B. Wentworth and Stan Aschmeier, New York's World Fair Comics #2 (July 1940)
I'm still waiting for Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt to look like a pink genie with lightning prongs on his head. This early in Johnny's career, he's either not seen (at least not as a semi-humanoid figure), or looks a pale yellow, here seen hassling a thief at the World Fair's hot dog stand.
This issue introduces Superman's total recall, but in a later story, THIS ability to change his facial features! It's not just the glasses then! Of course, the power was never seen again.*
*Except the times kind readers highlighted in the comments.
Man, Zatara's strip has the weirdest visuals...
I'm still waiting for Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt to look like a pink genie with lightning prongs on his head. This early in Johnny's career, he's either not seen (at least not as a semi-humanoid figure), or looks a pale yellow, here seen hassling a thief at the World Fair's hot dog stand.
Comments
No so! There was at least one other time Superman pulled out this amazing power (along with other forgotten powers!!)!
I love that era MOST where "Canon is no obstacle to a good story"!
Room to breathe, I call it.