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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I was surprised (and pleased) to see Sebastian Cabot as "Pip" in "A Nice Place to Visit" (Twilight Zone, S1 E28), one of the few episodes I had not seen before but saw for the first time only recently.
There are episodes of Checkmate! on YouTube. I just saw the first episode, guest-starring Anne Baxter.
I admit that I never heard of this series. I knew about Family Affair but I seldom watched it in syndication.
I enjoyed his Twight Zone episode and read that it was a very big deal for him to dye his hair and especially his beard white as he had to shave it off afterwards!
"I enjoyed his Twight Zone episode and read that it was a very big deal for him to dye his hair and especially his beard white as he had to shave it off afterwards!"
I remember that white (blond?) beard that he wore.
A sacrifice for Cabot to look angelic rather than satanic, so as not to blow the twist.
I forgot to mention something about the Super-Perry story.
To the best of my recollection, it was Mort Weisinger comics that taught me to reflexively read all strange names backwards, in case they mean anything. In the Super-Perry syory, one of the plant men is named Y'trom -- "Morty" backwards. I can never know for sure, but I want to believe it's a reference to Weisinger himself.
I used to use "Perry White Gets Super-Powers" as a snide fake-title when discussing the DC/Superman editors digging deep for a new plot. Let's see, Jimmy and Lois have become super approximately five, six times already. Hey, what about what's'is name ... Perry!
I'd usually identify that as a typical DC title, stating that Stan Lee would have used something like "And Men Shall Not Call Him 'Chief.'"
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