I think in one of the first Action Comics issues, Superman destroys a slum and forces the city government to build high quality public housing.
the superman radio show was a big part in the decline of the Klan.
journalists had infiltrated the Klan and wanted to share their secrets but the press and cops weren't interested or safe to tell anti Klan stuff to. So thy went to the superman radio show who had superman fight the Klan on the show and included the klans real secret codes and rituals which made them look really silly undermining a lot of their support.
It's not a cool mystery to be included in for your average racist if their kid heard about it on the radio
goddammit bill now all the kids think i'm a huge dork for dressing up as a ghost and calling myself the grand cyclopes
-somebody's racist great grandpa
Is this the comic where Hitler's "pal" that Superman is talking about is Stalin?
This was likely during the war (the first issue came out in 1939), so I'd guess he meant Hideki Tojo.
Nope, it was Stalin
Picks him up and drops them both off at the League of Nations
the League of Nations
lmao
The League of Nations then proceeds to do nothing, as designed.
Yeah, I just looked it up. That's disappointing but not surprising.
jesus fucking christ. that's gross. Also like I know libs dont follow even contemporary politics, but wasnt the USSR denied access to the LON? They sure as fuck where prevented from Munich but supes doesn't seem to care if its Czechs getting occupied by Nazis. Like its '38 or '39, and in his very first issue superman is beating up a lobbyist for trying to "involve the US in the war in europe" so what exactly is the Soviet's crime here? Not fighting yet when supes is actively keeping the US out of the war? He ok if the blood of Soviet Jews is spilled fighting Hitler, but not americans? It is enraging how the american mind never changes. they go from cheering Hitler, to then bitching that Stalin is Hitler's buddy for not fighting Hitler on his own after they condemned him for wanting their help fighting Hitler.
It's the problem with trying to have superheroes "fix" the real world. you have to stick to allegory and shit because otherwise you end up with lib shit like this. Superman Earth One had a similar thing in which Superman grabs a middle east dictator during an Arab Spring situation and essentially arrests him. Has a cool line out of context when the presidential palace is being attacked and there are gunshots and he says "those are your citizens casting their votes", but then he apologizes to the UN for doing all this. I cannot decide if JMS wanted to say that Clark was wrong for involving himself and that was a lib attempt at "oops american freedom bringers sometimes bungle stuff" or if it was him saying Clark was going against what america stands for and that's what was wrong.
Batman Earth One honestly had better politics
Imperialism is one hell of a drug.
But hey, at least the comic wasn't political.
Yup
Gotta remember that Superman is subject to the whim of the people writing him and many of them are painfully lib
Only when the writers try to pretend he has problems. When they just own that everything is perfect for him and let him beat up capitalists and warlords it's great entertainment.
Bad superman is bad and boring. Good superman isn't for everyone but I wouldn't call him boring.
there are few phrases as full of concentrated cope as "get woke go broke"
like completely ignoring what they mean by "go woke" it's always directed at the largest and richest corporations in existence. They went woke, shitheads, and y'all went broke paying them instead lmao
he also has black hair, a massive jaw, tan skin and squinty eyes
In January 1933, Siegel published a short story in his magazine titled "The Reign of the Superman". The titular character is a homeless man named Bill Dunn who is tricked by an evil scientist into consuming an experimental drug. The drug gives Dunn the powers of mind-reading, mind-control, and clairvoyance. He uses these powers maliciously for profit and amusement, but then the drug wears off, leaving him a powerless vagrant again. Shuster provided illustrations, depicting Dunn as a bald man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman#Creation_and_conception
Nope. No politics here.
if he had clairvoyance how did he not know the drug would wear off?
Because clairvoyance is the ability to perceive things from a great distance. You're thinking premonition, which allows you to perceive events in the future.
