This included the classic question of why Kent’s glasses don’t melt which they declared as made from the windows of the space ship he arrived on (because every optomotrist I know has the tools to shape intergallactic glass into lenses).

My favorite though was involving a complicated plot where they’re on a cruise and get attacked by pirates and someone gets killed I think. Anyway Superman ends up flying back in time and trying to warn them but nobody believes him so he flies off and takes a picture of the pirates. They’re approaching the ambush though and the picture still hasn’t developed so he uses his superpowers to speed develop it. Yes, speed polaroid development power.

Someone wrote in and asked why he didn’t just pick up a pirate and fly back with him and they said it was because the force with which superman flies would kill a normal human (since when??) but apparently his plastic camera and the film were ok!

Then there was the Legion of SubstiStoop Heroes, and Matter Eater lad, Bouncing Boy, Karate Kid, and my absolute favourite, Lobe Wolf, who originally thought he was an android. And a couple of other lame-os, the eventually made Matter Eater lad and Lone Wolf full non-substitute (I see right through your plastic mac) members. Then there was the Legion of Super Pets, including Supiestoop’s dog Krypto (ain’t it amazing how all these survivors of Krypton kept showing up?), a super-horse, Comet, a piece of orange, shapechanging gunk named Proty, but it got killed, but then there as Proty-II, a lil pet from Chameleon Boy’s planet- A Supermonkey, Beppo, and maybe a cat or two.

Ah, those were the days of the old Adventure Comix, after like 1966, when Batman got HIS “new look” – They also revamped the Legion – The original, upside-down Rocket where the Legion Met got smashed, Ferro-Lad got killed, Lightning Lad lost his arm, Triplicate Gurl got Duo-ised, and the changed a lot of their uniforms, and they went from them cool Flying Belts to Flight Rings, which I thought were lame.

They had a brand new legion hall made, and then they started adding those new members with even kookier powers.

My bother and I would read these things all day long, wee had almost every 12 cent issue, and even some 10 cent issues, there were some great comics, like Adam Strange who would get whisked away to the planet of his girlfriend by a ray, and one day he had to be at an exact Longitude and Latitude, except it was underwater. That’s what was great, you never knew where the ray was going to be, but Strange had a way of finding out there it was going to happen.

But when I think about it, I actually Liked Matter Eater lad, I remember an issue where his parents come to the Legion hall, and they see an award of his, and they wanted to eat it.

When you are 5 to 10 years old, it don’t matter how silly this stuff is, and later, when I’m 50, it still don’t matter, cos it was the feeling I got from reading these rags, and when I think about the stories I read, all the tall tales, I get that feeling back.

And that’s why, when I see all these lousy TV shows and moovies, and they change the story around, and change the characters, and their uniforms, and their relationships, I think the absolute worst show I’ve ever seen is “Small-Vile” – There was another syooperboy show, early 90s and THAT sukked too, but not as much as Small-Vile!

lol Xray strenght..(also nice pic of the invisible woman’s body..)