I saw this on another site and had to share. It's been years since I read the JLA story this is from, and I suspect the picture has been cropped, but even in context with what was happening in that story this is still pretty funny!
Hoy
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Yeah, that's JLA #25, "Outcasts of Infinity!" when The Atom used GL's ring and his own dazed willpower to draw back his teammates GL, Flash and Superman from some dimensional thing and got their top and bottom halves mixed up. The full shot shows GL, fairly tiny on the side, with Superman's bottom half. I will infer nothing about what this says about Kryptonian anatomy.
WW was there but somehow missed out on mixing things up, which is probably for the best.
You gotta wonder about whoever it was who read that story, saw that little piece of the panel and had it stand out like that for them. Lots of SA comics--and especially earlier ones--have some laughable dialog when read today.
I presume GL meant when it came to super-powers, he was powerless. Of course, in a few years, he'd be throwing away his power ring all the time so he could punch out guys, because he was so tired of being powerful 'n' all.
I pulled my JLA Archives Vol. 4 off the shelf last night and re-read that story for probably the hundredth time. When I was a kid my mom got me a subscription because it was my favorite title and she understood how important it was that I not miss an issue. Outcasts of Infinity was the third JLA story I ever read and it remains one of my favorites.
In a couple of months, the kid video game powerhouse franchise Skylanders is rolling out a new game called Skylanders: Swap Force in which the whole gimmick is that game characters have "swappable" top and bottom halves, and each half has its own powers and abilities that travel with it. Swap pieces, and you create new characters with different combinations of powers.
I remember a toy I had as a kid, called the Mighty Men and Monster Maker, in which there where three plastic plates -- head, torso, and legs -- that could be interchanged. Then you'd place a sheet of paper over the plates, and use a pencil or crayon to make a rubbing of the heroes or monsters you created from the different parts.
I have stumbled upon pieces of this type of tracing, rub over scene stuff, but never had a complete set of one. They would turn up every so often at the goodwill store or some second hand store among the cast off toys. This was when my kids were of the age that they were interested in toys, and so I scored all the pieces I could find, but they turned their nose up at the hodgepodge of the scenes that were supposed to go together. Not all of them made sense, but I thought that was part of the fun. Not for them, it would seem. We still have it somewhere around.
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Yeah, that's JLA #25, "Outcasts of Infinity!" when The Atom used GL's ring and his own dazed willpower to draw back his teammates GL, Flash and Superman from some dimensional thing and got their top and bottom halves mixed up. The full shot shows GL, fairly tiny on the side, with Superman's bottom half. I will infer nothing about what this says about Kryptonian anatomy.
WW was there but somehow missed out on mixing things up, which is probably for the best.
You gotta wonder about whoever it was who read that story, saw that little piece of the panel and had it stand out like that for them. Lots of SA comics--and especially earlier ones--have some laughable dialog when read today.
I presume GL meant when it came to super-powers, he was powerless. Of course, in a few years, he'd be throwing away his power ring all the time so he could punch out guys, because he was so tired of being powerful 'n' all.
-- MSA
Hoy
Was that Superman's first major cover appearance?
And what's GL complaining about? It's Flash who's suddenly stuck with being powerless below the waist!
In a couple of months, the kid video game powerhouse franchise Skylanders is rolling out a new game called Skylanders: Swap Force in which the whole gimmick is that game characters have "swappable" top and bottom halves, and each half has its own powers and abilities that travel with it. Swap pieces, and you create new characters with different combinations of powers.
That sounds familiar.
I remember a toy I had as a kid, called the Mighty Men and Monster Maker, in which there where three plastic plates -- head, torso, and legs -- that could be interchanged. Then you'd place a sheet of paper over the plates, and use a pencil or crayon to make a rubbing of the heroes or monsters you created from the different parts.
Ah, here it is!
I have stumbled upon pieces of this type of tracing, rub over scene stuff, but never had a complete set of one. They would turn up every so often at the goodwill store or some second hand store among the cast off toys. This was when my kids were of the age that they were interested in toys, and so I scored all the pieces I could find, but they turned their nose up at the hodgepodge of the scenes that were supposed to go together. Not all of them made sense, but I thought that was part of the fun. Not for them, it would seem. We still have it somewhere around.