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| Action Comics 325, June 1965! |
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ACTION COMICS 325, June 1965, was published on April 29, 1965. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of 12¢. Mort Weisinger was the editor, and the cover was pencilled by Curt Swan, inked by George Klein and lettered by Ira Schnapp. It featured the issue's first story, which starred Superman.
- (7:47) MY PULL LIST segment, where I review the comic books that were cover dated October 2018, released in August 2018, that I received from Discount Comic Book Service.
- (19:03) THE SKYSCRAPER SUPERMAN (11 pgs.), writer unknown, pencilled by Curt Swan and inked by George Klein.
- (41:10) METROPOLIS MAILBAG letter column.
- (47:52) Supergirl starred in UGLY DUCKLING TEACHER OF STANHOPE COLLEGE (13 pgs.), written by Leo Dorfman and drawn by Jim Mooney.
Also highlighted in this episode are the issue's ads and other features.
Next Episode: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOK COVER DATED JUNE 1965: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS 150 & ELSEWHERE IN DC COMICS, according to Mike's Amazing World Of Comics.
Then we will feature: SUPERMAN COMIC BOOKS COVER DATED JULY 1965: PART I: SUPERMAN 178, PART II: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE 58, PART III: ACTION COMICS 326 & PART IV: SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN 86!
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In "The Skyscraper Superman", it was fun to see the flashback to little Kal-El's time as a giant on Krypton. It is a little odd to see him in almost a mini-Superman costume, complete with a "cape" and the red triangle symbol on his chest. As much as I love these Silver Age stories, and flashbacks to life on Krypton, I do wish the writers in those days had a better grasp of little kids' speech. Clearly, they had never heard an actual toddler speak, because I've never heard one talk like Tarzan or Tonto. ("Me want to play with toy plane!", indeed!).
ReplyDeleteThe Supergirl story, "The Ugly Duckling Teacher of Stanhope College", was "of it's time" with Supergirl (and Miss Sparrow herself) seeming to accept the idea that only love and marriage would fulfill Miss Sparrow, who seems to be a good chemistry teacher in a time when women were not encouraged to go into "hard sciences". Some of Supergirl's stunts, like filling the chemistry lab with gas, and causing a landslide on the main highway, seem rather reckless, to say the least. As I said, this story is very much "of it's time", but it's hard not to view it through the lens of 21st Century sensibilities, I guess.
There's a fine line in reviewing these stories. I try to give these stories the benefit of the doubt most of the time by trying to see these stories through the eyes of the kid I was in the mid-1960's when I first learned how to read. Sometimes that's hard to do, like with the way Lucy Lane sometimes treats Jimmy Olsen, or Superman thinks Lois Lane needs to be taught another lesson.
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