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..)

In the mid-90s, Marvel and DC teamed up for a big Marvel vs. DC event, pitting Superman against the Hulk, Batman against Captain America, Superboy against Spider-Man, and etc. In the 1980s, Marvel created The Secret War, in which a superpowerful being called The Beyonder assembled a team of heroes and a team of villains from Earth, created a “Battleworld”, and told them to kill their opponents and he would give them whatever they wanted in return, an experiement in human desire. It was here in the Secret War that Spider-Man’s suit got shredded in battle (as well as having to give up his web shooters to Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic to survive something), and he saw Thor get a new cape and helmet, and Thor told him there was a machine that created costumes. Spider-Man used the wrong machine and that is how he got the black symbiote costume, which later joined with Eddie Brock to form Venom

I also enjoyed a short run comic by DC that was called “Sleepwalker” about a young man who was inhabited by a dream entity; that took over his body when he fell asleep. Marvel was my favorite because of Spiderman, & X-Men/New Mutants (the “Sleaziod Wars” series stands out as among the best); I also liked the collaboration that Marvel/DC did in the 80/90’s where a group of their collective heroes/villians teamed in some great event. This was where Spiderman received the uniform that would later become “Venom.” It was a gift from the aliens they were helping; when “Spidey’s” suit got totally shredded in a battle.

Best site ever for such sillyness.

On a sidenote, that whole Superman walking through walls thing popped up in the TV series from the 50s. It had to do with Superman being strong enough to pull his molecules apart just enough to filter them through the molecules of the wall.