Superman is a dick

[khaosworks]

In case mrdankelly hasn't seen this.

A collection of wacky Silver-Age covers. Work-safe.

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[madfilkentist]

In those days, the covers were drawn before the stories were written. I'm sure the DC artists came up with covers like those because they loved to make the writers squirm.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Many of the covers are from the 1950s and the Mort Weiseinger era - the kind-of Limbo between the end of the Golden Age around 1947 and the kind-of start of the Silver around 1955.

I may be misremembering, but the cover-as-story-idea wasn't implemented until Julie Schwartz started his sci-fi revolution at DC in the late 1950s - that practice being common in the SF pulp magazine industry, which Julie had come from.

Me, I think they were just being goofy and trying to attract attention by creating covers that would get readers to buy the comic just to find out what the heck was going on.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

(to add, though, that there are just as many covers from the 1960s too - the Neal Adams artwork kind of gives it away)

[madfilkentist]

Not to mention the length of Lois's skirt.