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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 20, 2020 9:22:39 GMT -5
I'd forgotten about those (or didn't know about some of them). You're right. It reminds me of the contradictory history of Krypton. Didn't it feature a race of Super-Men at one point, only to become a (relatively) normal planet where they didn't have superhuman abilities? That’s a case of Early Installment Weirdness, like Batman using guns or Wonder Woman not having her lasso in the first comics. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 9:25:05 GMT -5
Also, and I suppose I could Google this, what's with the whole orphanage thing in some Superman incarnations? Did Jonathan and Martha send Clark Kent to the orphanage for a while? I thought they'd found him and kept him there permanently, but I have read/seen the orphanage mentioned in some incarnations.
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Post by MDG on Jan 20, 2020 9:32:24 GMT -5
Also, and I suppose I could Google this, what's with the whole orphanage thing in some Superman incarnations? Did Jonathan and Martha send Clark Kent to the orphanage for a while? I thought they'd found him and kept him there permanently, but I have read/seen the orphanage mentioned in some incarnations. I believe in the original story (as reprinted in Feiffer's The Great Comic Book Heroes) they took him to an orphanage but "couldn't get that sweet baby out of their minds," so adopted him.
IIRC, in the Byrne reboot, the Kents told everyone they were snowed in and Martha delivered the baby at home.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 20, 2020 9:32:39 GMT -5
Also, and I suppose I could Google this, what's with the whole orphanage thing in some Superman incarnations? Did Jonathan and Martha send Clark Kent to the orphanage for a while? I thought they'd found him and kept him there permanently, but I have read/seen the orphanage mentioned in some incarnations. Not in the classic version. There were a lot of competing origins flying around in the '00s - maybe one of those? It wasn't Mark Waid's Birthright, but I know Geoff Johns did an origin reboot and there coulda been more. Also the Silver Age Kara Zor_el Supergirl was shipped off to the orphanage as soon as she landed. Superman's all "Raising teenagers is a drag! I'm just gonna drop you off here and.. hey! Have a nice life!" (Silver Age Superman was, beneath the clean Curt Swan-y facade, lowkey some of the darkest comics I have ever read.) |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2020 9:34:48 GMT -5
Thanks, guys! I would like to say that there's no criticism or judgement from me on contradictions. Hell, even when there's one writer on, say, several novels, mistakes happen. I read in one book that Ian Fleming gave James Bond a birthdate of 1920 in one of the novels, yet a later novel it was mentioned Bond bought his first car, a Bentley, in 1929!  |
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Post by nerdygirl905 on Jan 20, 2020 10:02:01 GMT -5
Also, and I suppose I could Google this, what's with the whole orphanage thing in some Superman incarnations? Did Jonathan and Martha send Clark Kent to the orphanage for a while? I thought they'd found him and kept him there permanently, but I have read/seen the orphanage mentioned in some incarnations. In the Silver Age, to avoid suspicion, they put him in a basket and leave him in the orphanage, then go and adopt him a few days later. |
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Post by Duragizer on Jan 20, 2020 16:55:39 GMT -5
I'd forgotten about those (or didn't know about some of them). You're right. It reminds me of the contradictory history of Krypton. Didn't it feature a race of Super-Men at one point, only to become a (relatively) normal planet where they didn't have superhuman abilities? That’s a case of Early Installment Weirdness, like Batman using guns or Wonder Woman not having her lasso in the first comics. This is why we ended up getting Earth-1, Earth-2, and a greater DC Multiverse later on. Another benefit of separate universes.  |
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