Superman is a dick

[khaosworks]

In case mrdankelly hasn't seen this.

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

Comments

[braider.livejournal.com]

I saw this link on the Gaiman feed. Please tell me the dialogs were photoshopped in?

My favorite commentary:

List of more pratical uses Superboy can make of a machine that can see through time:

Betting on the outcomes of sporting events.
Forseeing natural diasters and catastrophhe.
Letting Bruce Wayne know that his parents are going to be gunned down in front of his very eyes in a filthy alley, you dick.

[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.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

I think most of them were from the '60s. I have way too many of them.

Alas, my favorite example of the "Wow, there must have been some really interesting drugs in the DC water cooler" actual stories doesn't have a cool cover associated with it. But how can you top a story that features Jimmy Olsen in drag, proof the Comics Code thought beastiality was less objectionable than homosexuality, and Jimmy casually dismissing the murder of a mobster who'd tried to come onto "her" with a thought something like "Well, he'd escaped from jail anyway and was due for the death penalty, so it just saved the state money!". Oh, and he eats dog food as well. All in just eight pages, as shown here; third story "Miss Jimmy Olsen".

[mrdankelly.livejournal.com]

Superman is a dick. He's hogging space in the public consciousness and cheating all the other superheroes out of showing off their fugged-up covers. Now that I've recovered my collection from my parents, I may have to start running a few on my site.

Till then... NOT AGAIN!!! Robin, you asshole!