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inhousearchive · 2 months

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House-ad for The Adventures of Superman (1987) #500.

#house ad #superman #clark kent #the adventures of superman #dc #dc comics #comicsedit #dcedit #comicedit #90s

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sassylittlecanary · 1 year

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I got bored and decided to list the ✨vibes✨ different live-action versions of Superman give off.

Don't take my ramblings too seriously. ;)

Disclaimer: Not all live-action versions represented

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slightly-depressed-sloth · 8 months

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Man who is secretly an alien but also the worst liar on earth

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The 40’s superman radio show honestly has so many jokes that still hold up, this is more or less an exact interaction from one of the episodes

I may or may not have couple mini comics sketched up for this show 👀👀

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4 Panel digital art mini comic of 1940’s radio show Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen

Panel 1 - Clark Kent is a blur on the left side as he uses his superspeed to arrive. In front of him on the right is Jimmy Olsen he's taking a photo.

Panel 2 - Clark is now fully in focus and looks very uncomfortable. Jimmy looks up at Clark and says "Hey Mister Kent, I didn't see you come. Say, how'd you get here so quickly, anyways"

Panel 3 - Clark holds up his left hand swatting off the question, he looks uncomfortably off to the side with an obviously strained smile and replies "ha ha ha... Never mind that." In front Jimmy looks at him questioningly.

Panel 4 - Clark points to the right with conviction as he shouts "what's that over there!", His glasses shine blocks out his eyes. Jimmy follows Clark's finger.

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sisaloofafump · 2 months

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#falling for you #you’ve reached the end of this line #best have had chronological dash on for this #let’s see if I can pull it off #superman #clark kent #the adventures of Superman #issue 439 #illustrated by #jerry ordway #it’s very good

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deacblues · 11 months

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when i look at old stills from the adventures of superman, i can’t help but imagine superman and his friends as real people. it’s the same feeling i get from looking at any photo of a great, real world figure from the same time-- there’s marilyn monroe and cary grant and frank sinatra and superman.

#superman #lois lane #jimmy olsen #the adventures of superman

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citizenscreen · 4 months

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George Reeves as Clark Kent and

Noel Neill as Lois Lane on set of “The Adventures of Superman”

#the adventures of superman #classic tv #behind the scenes #george reeves #noel neill

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dcbinges · 8 months

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The Adventures of Superman #449 (1988) by Jerry Ordway

#clark kent #kal el #the guardian #guardian #golden guardian #james harper #jim harper #gwen harper #superman #dc comics #dc #80s comics #80s #kal-el #jerry ordway #the adventures of superman #adventures of superman #comics

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kekwcomics · 4 months

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The Adventures of Superman: "The Runaway Robot" (1953)

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thecomicsnexus · 4 months

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SUPERMAN #21-22 / THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #444

September/October 1988

By John Byrne, Jerry Ordway John Beatty, Dennis Janke, Petra Scotese, John Costanza, and Albert De Guzman.

Superman meets the new Supergirl and quickly realizes she comes from the Time Trapper's pocket universe. After arriving there, he discovers their version of Lex Luthor freed three kryptonian criminals from the Phantom Zone (not knowing they were criminals) and this pretty much doomed the entire planet.

Faced with the reality that these three criminals could make their way into the new Earth, Superman will be faced with a tough decision that will change his life forever.

SCORE: 10

This is the final story from Byrne's run. Why? Unclear.

Some sources say that Byrne wasn't happy with the lack of control he had over Superman's status. Others say that he didn't like the dark direction the books were taking... but whatever the case was... writers continued working on his plots for years (with almost everything closing between 1990 and 1991, and influencing the "Reign of the Supermen" saga).

This final story is really dark, with Superman being forces to execute the Phantom Zone criminals. You can tell that the saga probably influenced the "Man of Steel" movie in more ways than just the death of Zod at Superman's hands (although technically, Zod ended up being killed by Quex-Ul).

Now, when it comes to format, this feels like a cinematic experience... now. But it was a bit of a pain to read in physical form. It's like this story was created in a way that couldn't be fully enjoyed until digital comics arrived. All three issues use two pages for panel layouts, resulting in panoramic views that make everything way bigger and more beautiful.

There is something about the idea that Byrne wasn't happy with the darkness of the book that makes sense in the context of a story that ultimately reintroduced Supergirl (although that would take a few years to be fulfilled). This Supergirl was created by Luthor, and it is made of Protomatter. This interesting plot device would return with a vengeance a year later.

It's unclear if the Kryptonians were resourceful enough to escape this dimension. Leaving them powerless in a barren Earth could have been a life sentence. Then again, they were going to die anyway without an atmosphere. So yes, taking to New Earth could have been very risky. Of course, Zod and co would much later make their debut into the new DC multiverse, but for a very long time, this was the only version of them that existed.

I am not sure how to feel about Luthor not using the Gold Kryptonite earlier, nor how he kept it away from them. I feel like, with many other things in these three issues, that was a last minute creative decision. This story should have lasted at least one more issue. As it is, many characters were introduced that died off panel or barely did anything.

Still, the story works well enough for me, and the artistic choices makes it a classic.

So... without Byrne... will the Superbooks survive?

Yes, in fact, another classic saga is starting right away that will lead to yet another classic saga known as the "exile in space."

Very interesting times for Superman.

#1988 #comics #review #dc comics #modern age #superman #the adventures of superman #john byrne #jerry ordway

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nitewrighter · 2 months

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So I started listening to the old Adventures of Superman Radio Show because of you and I’m loving it.

As much as I miss the Kents, I do enjoy the detail that literally the First thing Kal-El does upon landing on earth is save people.

God, for me, the best part of those early episodes are definitely the madcap quick-changes between Superman and Clark Kent. Like!!! They don't even see Superman! Clark Kent just kind of shows up and shit starts mysteriously going sideways for the bad guys and they look at this one fucking reporter like "what the fuck happened?" and he keeps saying, "Well gosh, I don't know, that big guy just tripped and fell into my fist."

Also I thought the way they handled the destruction of Krypton in those early episodes was like... incredibly poignant. The radio show itself is pretty light and fast-paced, so the fact that they play the loss of this planet completely straight and incredibly dramatic really just sets an excellent baseline of general stakes and how the show kind of takes its own morality seriously.

And then it's like, "And then he springs out of the rocket fully grown!" and you're like "Wow! Okay! We're jumping right into this??" It took me a while to really figure out that the Superman I grew up with was heavily influenced by John Byrne's 1986 "Man of Steel" reboot which more heavily emphasized his childhood in Smallville and also shifted Lex Luthor from mad scientist to business magnate.

#superman #the adventures of superman

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silveragelovechild · 2 years

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#I love Lucy #the adventures of superman #George Reeves #Lucille Ball #Little Ricky #1950s

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sassylittlecanary · 10 months

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For everyone who’s mad about David Corenswet playing Superman instead of Henry Cavill, here’s some stats…

George Reeves played Superman from 1951-1958.

Christopher Reeve played Superman from 1978-1987.

John Newton played Superman from 1988-1989.

Gerard Christopher played Superman from 1989-1992.

Dean Cain played Superman from 1993-1997.

Tom Welling played Superman from 2001-2011.

Brandon Routh played Superman in 2006 and then again in 2019.

Henry Cavill played Superman from 2013-2023.

Tyler Hoechlin played Superman from 2016-present.

Now it’s David Corenswet’s turn.

Pretty regularly since the 1970s, someone new has been playing Superman roughly every few years.

I understand that Henry Cavill was mislead and treated poorly by the studio (which sucks). But stop acting like Superman being recast after a decade is an unheard-of, shocking crime against you. It’s been the norm for fifty years.

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slightly-depressed-sloth · 8 months

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Another direct quote from 40’s radio show Clark! This line just lives in my head rent free, he’s always just so excited to break shit 💀💀

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Kinda part 2 of this? (not really but it’s also fanart of radio Clark)

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Image 1:

3 panel vertical comic of 1940’s radio show Superman

Panel 1; Superman is hovering over a lit roof window, he’s smiling and holding up his right hand in a fist saying “there’s the skylight!”

Panel 2; Close up of his fist as he punches and breaks the window with a *krrk* sound effect

Panel 3; back to full body shot of superman now with his hands on his hips and smiling triumphantly over the now destroyed window as he says “there WAS the skylight!”

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A digital drawing of Superman in the centre of the canvas sitting crisscrossed his left hand waving and his right neatly in his lap as he beams at the viewer. There is a hard yellow light coming from the audiences right hand side and a yellow dotted rectangle in the background to help highlight Clark. Text with an arrow pointing to Clark on his left side reads “nuisance to property everywhere”

#I guess this is what happens when he doesn’t have ma and pa kent #he has to have a child psychologist in the 40’s tell the show runners that teaching kids to solve problems with their fists is bad actually #I love all Clark’s but radio Clark is just so WEIRD and chaotic that he’s just constantly rotating around in my head like rotisseriechicken #the adventures of superman #superman #superman radio show #clark kent #dc #dc fanart #dc universe #superman fanart #slightlyslothdraws #digital art #artwork #mini comic #fan comic

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stealingyourbones · 2 years

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My god I love The Adventures of Superman radio show just so much. Here’s a few reasons why:

- Clark is one of the snarkiest motherfuckers you will EVER meet. Dude sasses and lies his way through conversations like you wouldn’t believe. Dude leaves to ‘do something else’ and changes to Superman and then just comes back and interrogates the current secondary character that drives the plot to see if they saw the feat that Superman did that day.

- Superman doesn’t pull his punches when he wants information. He beats the everloving shit out of goons to find out where [person] or [location] is. He repeatedly flies super high into the air and just straight up drops them and catches them at the last moment as a scare tactic.

- Superman will change back to Clark Kent DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF a goon he previously threatened and look them dead in the eye and say “You saw nothing. I’m Clark Kent. Reporter for the Daily Planet.” And then just continue on with his day. Over a dozen low level goons know his true identity.

- Superman repeatedly leaps out of 20 story floors to leave and do Superman business but it never fails that a woman notices, screams at the top of her lungs, and is convinced that Clark Kent fell to his death. They have used this at least 3 times to my memory to end episodes. Clark arrives back at the same location a few episodes later and no one questions a thing.

- Lois Lane isn’t even really nice to Kent. She’s just plain mean to him. Not the quippy and sassy version we have today. She just belittles him and roasts him and Superman still saves her ass from death near constantly. She DOES beat up villains tho and I respect that greatly.

- Jimmy Olsen is best friends with Dick Grayson and the sole reason is so Bruce and Clark can speak privately and not worry about getting interrupted for plot reasons. (Also so the teenage pair can get kidnapped. Dick is a damsel in distress so frequently.)

- Every. Single. Time. Bruce or Clark says each others identity it’s without fail: “Sup- I mean, Clark Kent.” or “batma- I mean, Bruce Wayne.” Without fail. Every single fucking time. It’s obviously for the listener but they sometimes just say their whole ass secret identity before saying their superhero name. How the world hasn’t figured out these twos identities is a mystery to me.

- Kryptonite robs Superman ONLY of his strength. He can use every other power but within 10 feet of the funky radiation rock he becomes paralyzed.

- Superman fights the KKK. Enough said.

- Superman once loses his memory via ingesting liquid kryptonite. Hitchhikes all over the country, adopts the identity of Bud Smith, and then proceeds to become a world famous baseball player and beat multiple world records. I promise you this is real.

-Superman can apparently only fly at his full speed when he has both arms extended. Only using one arm makes him slower. It’s such a stupid limitation and I love it.

- Kryptonite was invented by the radio show because the Superman voice actor, Bud Collyer, needed a vacation.

- Clark Kent has a pilots license and it’s a catch all to catch up with villains to the point where it’s overused.

- Superman arrives in his rocket on earth as a FULL GROWN MAN. No Martha or Jonathan Kent. No Smallville. Nothing. Homie just lands as a whole ass dude, flies to Indiana, and proceeds to rescue a train with a boy and his father who give him the name Clark Kent and that he should work for a newspaper.

- It shouldn’t be funny to me but whenever Bud Collyer does the rapid shift from Clark to Superman it’s always the funniest shit ever. It’s just “oh geez I found the bodies! Oh no! Looks like they aren’t breathing. Looks like a job for Superman.” It comes out of nowhere and it’s so good I love it so much.

- This man can simultaneously breath in space and drown in the ocean.

- Oh by the way, apparently Superman has only one way that he can be killed: starvation. That’s it. Kryptonite just weakens him. Takes months but eventually you could kill Superman by starvation.

- Jimmy repeatedly gets his life threatened in the most horrifying of ways and just goes “this sounds like a story! Someone get Mr.Kent over here!”

- the use of “Atomic [insert machine here]” for every single sci-fi gizmo, tool, or weapon. Well, besides the stories when they focus on an indigenous people and then suddenly magic or voodoo is the cause. I mean hey it’s the 1940s but like,,, really? C’mon dude. Don’t do that.

- the absolutely terrible accents. Is that man meant to be a Spaniard? Is he meant to be German? Who knows. Your best bet is German cause this is during WW2 but it’s truly a coin toss.

- Other fun accent atrocities: A really shitty Italian accent for someone who was supposed to be Mexican. The only change of speech being excessive rolling of R’s for Spaniards, Transylvanian accent for someone who was meant to be… I think Russian? Bro it was really bad. All voiced by some American who has probably never heard that accent in their entire life.

- flip flopping between progressive stories striving to stop anti-semitism, racism, and unequal rights. And then having an evil dictator of a hidden tiny planet next to mars who the readers hear Jimmy Olsen say that he is like hitler. Like just straight up say it. And then proceed to describe the dictator as “beady eyed and crooked nosed.” Just straight up using the tyrant evil Jewish king stereotype. They slowly start getting Better past episode 500 but holy shit they don’t know how to pick a fucking lane.

- there’s a Superman radio comedy special by Bob Hope and it’s genuinely hilarious. Evil scientist wants to turn Superman into soap. Punchline after punchline.

- And finally, in the original test pilot that was made had the intro as “It’s a giant bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman!” It’s so clunky and wild but it makes sense why they chose bird in the first place

This radio show is so interesting from a historical and story perspective. The wild ass stories that the writers make astound me still and I’ve listened to at least 150/2,200 episodes that aired

#bones speaks #The Adventures of Superman #it’s just such a cool radio show #one thing that sucks is that no one has tried to fix the audio quality so everything is muffled #the history of this show is positively wonderful and y’all should listen to it

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haveyoureadthiscomic-poll · 1 month

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This run is between issue #587 and issue #623

#the adventures of superman #adventures of superman #superman #joe casey #dc #dcu #dc comics #poll

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deacblues · 11 months

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i just started watching the adventures of superman, and this member of krypton’s science council is clearly wearing captain marvel’s costume from the 40′s serials.

#superman #captain marvel #the adventures of superman #shazam

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