After I doodled up Glam Rock Batman, Chris Haley put a wish out to the universe for a Freddie Mercury Superman. I know, Queen is arena rock, we’ll get through this together somehow.
Superman #228-229 (July-August 1970). Written by Leo Dorfman. Pencilled by Cur Swan, inked by George Russos.
The Anti-Supeman Gang captures Superman, strips him of his costume and (because his costume, like himself, is indestructible due to the rays of Earth’s yellow sun) auctions if off to the highest bidder.
Meanwhile, naked Superman is rocketed to the distant murder planet Morgu. Robbed of his clothes and his powers, Superman meets and defeats the self-selected champion of the planet, an elderly man in a patchwork costume much like the Man of Steel’s. The old man goes by the name of “Supro.”
Superman is given the title of Supro, and proceeds to prove his worth by fashioning a crude pair of wings with which to flap and glide.
He sets out to rescue a woman named Lirlon who’s been selected as a ritual sacrifice, only to find he has arrived too late, and proceeds to go well and truly bazoo.
Turns out, Lirlon is not only both hunky and dory, thank you very much, she’s actually Supergirl in disguise, who has arrived to rescue Superman. But not before literally slapping some sense into the schmuck.
Help. Superman doodle break.
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And not for nothing, but that note-perfect button at the end — “You can save them. You can save all of them” — just so happens to line up precisely with the central thesis of SUPERMAN: THE UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY. Which is available for purchase. And which has only 17 Amazon reviews come on people help ol’ Uncy Glen out why don’t you.
This has occasioned another OFFICIAL EXPECTATION STATUS UPGRADE!
From Cautiously Optimistic to PLEASE Don’t Fuck It Up.
(Which is pretty much Cautiously Optimistic but with fear.)
RELATED: Wrote a brief overview of Superman in film (minus the serials and animated shorts) for the Village Voice, which includes a look forward at MOS.
TCR | 2013.06.05 | Man of Steel goes commando
A. Preach.
B. We all know he’s basically just swapped the shorts for a dance belt, right?
Everything Clark Kent likes!
The New Teen Titans by George Perez
I proudly Fun-Taked this poster on the wall of my college dorm room, where it kept a lonely vigil staring across the greige industrial carpet at the PETER GABRIEL PLAYS LIVE poster on the opposite wall, which it did not trust. At. All.
I didn’t date much.
But you guessed that.
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Superman by Ramon Pla
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Over on NPR’s Monkey See, I write about my favorite Superman story — which is not, in point of fact, a Superman story — 1964’s “The Red-Headed Beatle of 1,000 B.C.” in which Jimmy Olsen gets stranded in Ancient Judea and promptly begins a career selling bootleg Beatles merch to a disconcertingly Nordic Jewry.
Because, sure.
