It's a "Superman gets depressed because everyone in Metropolis likes another hero more than him" story

>it's a "Superman gets depressed because everyone in Metropolis likes another hero more than him" story
Seriously what was supermans problem ?

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My guess is it was made for children and they can relate to petty jealousy.

They really lost a lot of superman's personality in the modern age

What's his new amazing power?

it's a jojo reference

Shooting a mini Superman out of his hands that does all the work for him

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>Shooting a mini Superman out of his hands that does all the work for him

Is it the cute midget?

Obviously prismatic spray.
According to D&D 3.5, you will be blinded if hit by it, and depending on which color you are affected, you suffer burning, acid, get shocked, might be poisoned, petrified, turned insane, or be sent to the phantom zone.

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It's a doll-sized version of himself.
While it's in action he doesn't have his usual powers.
He doesn't like it because people don't realize it's just an automaton doing what he wills. It's not a REAL hero and shouldn't be idolized.
Then it acts independently and destroys itself to save him from a trap, and he starts re-thinking his earlier disdain.

When did comics change from having complex, interesting stories about the human condition and the nature of man...to being about a bunch of black people and trannies fighting mutants and aliens while dishing out pop-culture references?

Superman has gay beams. The govt is turning people gay cause reasons *drinks windex*

>or be sent to the phantom zone.
ok, I did laugh.

>1d8 Color of Beam Effect
> 7 Violet Sent to another plane (Will negates)

wat

About the time More Weisinger died.
He was the (much hated by the people who worked for him) editor of Superman during the Silver Age.

if i recall Mort was always going to see a shrink and then wanted to use psychology in his superman books . it explains why Supes had survivors guilt back then

He had survivors guilt in the Bronze age. Mort was not the editor then.

More like this explain the spanking fetish of those books

What? You think Superman, Lois and Jon smiling at each other and enjoying wholesome moments the whole issue is not complex?

they kept a lot of the stuff from silver age well into bronze age

didn't want to start a new thread for this but does anyone have the comic page where Superman is suntanning on the moon? (at first it looks like he's on the beach but as the image pulls out you see he's on the moon)

Silver age pettiness will never not be entertaining

Underrated post

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>lois is always trying to get Superman to marry her
>even though that means superman has to retire or her life is in constant peril
>superman would rather run around in a costume made of his baby blanket and hang out in his fortress alone filled with memorabilia and robots that look like himself

what were the married middle aged writers trying to tell us?

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TO be fair Superman only did this to teach the world about the dangers of nuclear war

Well thank you for clearing that up.
I was worried no amount of context could save it.

Don't tell me you can't relate in your old age.

Weisinger

I never laughed this much. This era of comics is pretty entertaining.

If Mort was seeing a shrink, it didn't help.
He was a tyrannical bastard who like torturing underlings. Management didn't care so long as Circulation was good.

>hunter x hunter chimera ant arc

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Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman each got a pretty different personality in every era.

Golden Age Superman = douchebag
Silver Age Superman = a bit of a dumbass
Bronze Age Superman = heroic ideal

Golden Age Batman = swashbuckling
Silver Age Batman = squeaky clean neighborhood hero
Bronze Age Batman = intelligent detective

Golden Age Wonder Woman = doesn't take shit from anyone
Silver Age Wonder Woman = romance obsessed drama queen
Bronze Age Wonder Woman = smiling hero

Superman finally makes sense to me

He told me not to tell you. It's a secret.

Come on, you can tell me user!

He poops gold

>superman's "girlfriend" Lois Lane

The power of bait covers
The ability to make more people buy his comics

At least this time it wasn't a fake out
He really did gain a new power for that issue

This.