Monday PSA: Superboy in “How to Bring Christmas Cheer!”‘
December 21st, 2009
Filed under: Comics
The second of two Superboy Christmas-themed public service ads, and definitely the weaker of the two.
I haven’t read too many Superboy stories, but does he come across as smug and condescending in the comics as he does in these PSAs?
For those of you paying attention last week, this week has even more instances of Superboy’s cape mysteriously flying out behind him and seeming to defy gravity. I think I have to go with the Kryptonian flatulence theory.
This PSA was found Adventure Comics #160 as well as other DC comics from January 1951. Just like last week (and pretty much every Superboy PSA), the script is by Jack Schiff with art by Win Mortimer.
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December 22nd, 2009 at 12:15 am
Well I know less about comics than you, but didn’t he become Superboy Prime?
December 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
I don’t see a single mohawk on anybody at that clubhouse.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:00 am
No, it is not flatulence. Before Superboy punched physics, capes used to float like that without being acted upon.
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:44 am
I think he starches the cape to stick straight out for the drama. He is such a drama queen.
December 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
All I know is that, in addition to the mysterious floating cape, all of Smallville is suffering from a sunburn-like rash. This points to something they’ve been eating or something in the air. Given the flying cape, it’s something in the air from something Superboy’s been eating. Clearly, the Boy of Steel was never meant to eat Earth food, and perhaps we have discovered the mechanism behind his ability to fly.
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 pm
I think Superman was like that all the time in the ’50s; doesn’t matter how old he was in the story.
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