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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 11, 2017 18:25:42 GMT -5
He restored a child's blindness. . . LOL. I think you mean "sight." Otherwise, you're describing a dangerous, alien sociopath.  Forgive the nitpick. It's a good argument you've presented. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 11, 2017 19:33:05 GMT -5
He restored a child's blindness. . . LOL. I think you mean "sight." Otherwise, you're describing a dangerous, alien sociopath. Forgive the nitpick. It's a good argument you've presented. "hmmm. My X-Ray vision reveals that this apparently healthy girl has a piece of glass pressing against her optic nerve." "That's terrible, Superman! Can you help her?" "Interestingly enough, it appears that she was born without sight and this errant slice of glass has created what to her, can only be considered the abnormality of vision. But don't you worry - I'll have that glass out of there in no time!" |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Aug 11, 2017 19:49:44 GMT -5
"hmmm. My X-Ray vision reveals that this apparently healthy girl has a piece of glass pressing against her optic nerve." "That's terrible, Superman! Can you help her?" "Interestingly enough, it appears that she was born without sight and this errant slice of glass has created what to her, can only be considered the abnormality of vision. But don't you worry - I'll have that glass out of there in no time!" Bravo! Give it a Neal Adams cover and a nutty, Weisinger-era title like "Blinded by the Might" and I could totally believe this is canonical.  |
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Post by rossn on Aug 12, 2017 13:41:12 GMT -5
In absolute fairness Clark has been called on his jerkishness at times. Like back in his Superboy days when he was turned into a girl for being a mysgyonist:  Out of curiosity, what issue of Superboy does this adventure took place ... anybody can help me! Superboy #78 (Jan 1960). It's a fun story especially if you like gender flip comedy and as I noted Superboy gets a lesson he deserved (I'm actually a big fan of Silver Age Superman/Superboy but he did need taking down a peg or two occasionally.) |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2017 15:54:51 GMT -5
Thanks rossn for the tip and I'll be heading to my LCS soon to pick up a copy of that story. |
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Post by zaku on Aug 13, 2017 4:29:07 GMT -5
Steve Lombard suffers from severe CTE. It was only mild until Superman got ahold of him. Let's keep things in perspective though. This isn't some random guy giving Steve Lombard concussion after concussion; this is Superman. A man whose X-Ray vision working in tandem with a photographic memory would allow him to memorize every single detail of every single medical textbook thus making him the greatest surgeon of all time. He had performed delicate operations before guided by said X-Ray/microscopic vision and the firm hands only the Man of Steel possessed. He restored a child's blindness by locating and removing a piece of glass which had been wedged behind her optic nerve in the classic The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman, for instance. On a later occasion, he calmly stood by as a man was gunned down and tossed in a ditch (I am not making this up) so that he could maintain an undercover identity for a case he was working on in World's Finest 150. Why calmly? Because he knew it would be a piece of cake for him to later return to that ditch and restore the man's life with his super abilities and sure enough, this is exactly what he did. So in short, yes, Superman caused or allowed many concussions to happen to Steve Lombard, but given his skills, it would have been child's play for Superman to not reverse whatever damage ensued. Did Superman ever bother to do that? Well.... no. Your examples are from the Silver Age. The panel is from a story published during the Bronze Age, which is supposed to be more rooted in realism. I mean, two years before DC published this  |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 14, 2017 19:20:52 GMT -5
Let's keep things in perspective though. This isn't some random guy giving Steve Lombard concussion after concussion; this is Superman. A man whose X-Ray vision working in tandem with a photographic memory would allow him to memorize every single detail of every single medical textbook thus making him the greatest surgeon of all time. He had performed delicate operations before guided by said X-Ray/microscopic vision and the firm hands only the Man of Steel possessed. He restored a child's blindness by locating and removing a piece of glass which had been wedged behind her optic nerve in the classic The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman, for instance. On a later occasion, he calmly stood by as a man was gunned down and tossed in a ditch (I am not making this up) so that he could maintain an undercover identity for a case he was working on in World's Finest 150. Why calmly? Because he knew it would be a piece of cake for him to later return to that ditch and restore the man's life with his super abilities and sure enough, this is exactly what he did. So in short, yes, Superman caused or allowed many concussions to happen to Steve Lombard, but given his skills, it would have been child's play for Superman to not reverse whatever damage ensued. Did Superman ever bother to do that? Well.... no. Your examples are from the Silver Age. The panel is from a story published during the Bronze Age, which is supposed to be more rooted in realism. I mean, two years before DC published this Which brings us to this...  Toss in Denny O Neil having Oliver Queen lazily comparing numerous people he disagrees with left and right as Nazis and I'm wondering if we shouldn't be cutting Superman some slack. Oh, and while The Girl Who Didn't Believe in Superman dates to the 1950's, my reference to World's Finest 150 (which is Silver Age) was a slip. I meant to cite the Bronze Age Brave and the Bold 150 in my earlier post. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 20:39:34 GMT -5
I just got an email from my LCS and they have a copy of Superboy #78 and I'll pick it up on Saturday AM and can't wait to read this story.
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