Bad Handwriting Saves the Day
September 16th, 2009
Here’s the end of the story from the last post. It’s nicely symmetrical: one doctor sends Mr Mxyztplk to Earth, but another one sends him home:
OK, it’s Superman pretending to be a doctor (and pharmacist), but that counts as much as that quack from the Fifth Dimension.
And they managed to work in a “doctors have bad handwriting” joke.
Should Superman be practicing medicine without a license (or dispensing drugs?) Or does that really apply here.
Nice to see there’s another Super-Pharmacist besides Bob Benton.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Let’s see who is going to have the guts to arrest Superman for illegal practice…
September 16th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
They’d never prove it was him, Alberto. He’s got an extraordinarily clever disguise, consisting of a white coat and a pencil mustache. I suppose if a pair of glasses fools top-notch investigative reporter Lois Lane, then a fake mustache is sufficient for a fifth-dimensional superbeing with near-godlike powers.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I knew that was Clark Kent in the pharmacy in that Black Terror comic!
September 16th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Its spelled: Mxyzptlk, not Mxyztplk. The T comes after the P.
September 16th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Official Comment
Ace:
It was this issue in fact (Action #208) where the spelling was changed from the original Mxyzptlk to the now current Mxyztplk. See the previous post, where I posted a panel with the spelling intact.
September 17th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I remember that in the first appearance of Mr. Mx-something in the John Byrne phase, there is a panel that explains how to pronounce the name of the fifth-dimension “prank-loving friend”.
Can’t remember what was the “correct” spelling then though.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:34 am
The Timm/Dini Superman cartoon of the ’90s provided what is, for me, the definitive answer to the question, as Gilbert Gottfried so memorably intoned:
MIX-yezz-SPIT-lick!
(My apologies for the terrible quality of the link; that was the only clip of the segment I could find on YouTube.)
September 17th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Oh, and “MyxyzTPlk” is the Golden Age version; “MyxyzPTlk” is the Silver/Bronze/Iron/Aluminum Age version.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Scott, you should dig up the other story where Mxyztplk suffers from a medical condition: he laughs so hard at one of his own practical jokes that he gives himself…lockjaw! Right.
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