I haven't been looking forward to this collection quite as much as the upcoming Superboy one, but still I'll likely get around to reading it sooner rather than later, hence the stub. (If anyone else wants to delve into it ahead of me, please feel free to do so.) This one includes Action Comics #266 & #277-278, Adventure Comics #287, Superman #142-143 & #147, Superboy #87, #90 & #92, Lois Lane #19-28 and Jimmy Olsen #47-56. I don't know why these issue in particular, but at least their choice demonstrates that someone has put some thought into it.
I used to like those b&w DC Showcase and Marvel Essential collections... at least I liked the idea of them. Although I would have preferred color, I bought the ones I didn't have and didn't expect to see reprinted in color any time soon, including the DC Showcase edition of Superman Family. I am pleased to report there there is very little duplication between the DCF volume and the four Showcase editions:
- Vol. 1 - Jimmy Olsen #1-22 and Showcase #9
- Vol. 2 - Jimmy Olsen #23-34, Showcase #10 and Lois Lane #1-7
- Vol. 3 - Jimmy Olsen #35- 44 and Lois Lane #8-16
- Vol. 4 - Jimmy Olsen #45-53 and Lois Lane #17-26
That's only 15 issues of duplication, and only with Showcase volume four.
(All covers illustrated by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye unless otherwise noted.)
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It was Super Friends #28 (Ja'80), the Halloween issue!
It was written by E. Nelson Bridwell who also brought up that Jimmy knows Batman and Robin's secret identities!
Jimmy as the Wolf Man with Jayna as a black cat!
I remember in Detective Comics #439 (Ma'74) that reprinted the Doctor Fate story from More Fun Comics #66 (Ap'41) where Doc meets a "leopard girl" but says that there are no such things or supernatural entitiesdespite being a supernatural entity himself!
Jimmy is knocked unconscious, never something to be treated lightly, twice during the course of this story.
This is when every movie and TV show had been showing people hit over the head, multiple times with no ill effects, for dozens of years.
We all know the result of being knocked out by a blow to the head. You will wake up with a loss of memory and some form of weird delusion. All your friends will have to play along with your delusion, because otherwise your mind will be destroyed forever. And eventually, another blow to the head will knock you out again, and you'll wake up cured of your delusion, and with your memory restored. That's just Silver Age Science™!
It was also Sitcom Science.
I'm sure many people here have a concussion story, even without having been knocked out.
A couple days later, I thought that I was fine, so I walked to pick up a few things at the neighbourhood grocery store. After all, it was a pretty mild concussion. When I stepped outside of the store, I had no idea where I was or how to get back to my house. I had to sit down and think through how to get home.
People who were unconscious for any length of time? Significantly worse effects, as everyone here has noted.
It's been years since I watched Wild, Wild West, but it seemed to me that Jim West was knocked out by a blow to the head just about every episode. Usually right before a commercial break.
I think the world record holder has got to be Tonto.
Years ago, I heard a report on NPR where they discused this sort of thing with a physician and he said that when you're knocked out and regain consciousness, the first thing that typically happens is that you vomit, and you do NOT just get up ready for action.
As for "ghosts", I remember a late Golden Age JSA story where they scoffed at the idea of such things, and when I first read it, I was like, "One of the founding members of your team was a ghost!"
It's like the Scooby Doo episode where Mystery, Inc. meets the Addams Family. This was before the more recent episodes where, rarely, the supernatural exists. They go to great lengths to say, well, it's the Addams Family house, so certain things are possible that wouldn't be normally. Of course, [spoiler alert], the villainous ghosts in this one do turn out to be people in disguise.
And, as many people have pointed out before me, supernatural forces must exist in the Scooby-verse, or else people wouldn't be so easily scared away by fake ghosts.
I'm collaborating on a book at present on small town mysteries and cryptids. The first thing that happens after an alleged ghost or monster exists in your town, is the uptick in tourism. Multiple local monsters, in fact, turn out to be hoaxes by people trying to draw tourists to East Podunk or the Annual Town Festival or what-have-you.
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