Wouldn’t be the Silver Age if every other month Jimmy didn’t have transformation fatigue! Speaking of cover nastiness, sill curious about the one where the Atom is putting a beat down on~~the Atom!?!
Cover suggestion : DC COMICS PRESENTS vol 1 issue 26 It has Hal/GL Either Holding or Forming a Large Chunk of Green Kryptonite above Clark/ Superman’s Head with a Big Yellow Cloud that has a Demonic Face behind Hal 🖖🏾
I just realized Homelander was probably given a bunch of Silver Age Superman comics when he was growing up in the lab and took that as a blueprint for how to behave.
And vought would think they're harmless, campy, silly stories without understanding the dark undertones. Also, you ever notice how similar superboy (conner kent) and homelander are? Both are created from a giant company, both were created to be great heroes that are super marketable, and both want attention and love from the public. Homelander is just if superboy never escaped and fully grew up.
"Hey, I'm Jimmy Olsen, I just became biologically Atlantean about an hour ago. My friend dragged your head of state to the desert, where he perspired to death. Because I've shown the ability to not die as quickly in the most arid place on Earth, that qualifies me to rule the wettest place on Earth". That would be extremely difficult not to interpret as an act or war, let alone a legitimately recognized regime change. But knowing Atlantis, that exact set of circumstances is probably in their Constitution.
Damn Superman must be an arse if they didn't suspect anyhting here: calling out Arthur on Mera's wife, taunting Jimmy and Arthur, not phased by Arthur's death. I hate to think what Arthur would think Superman would respond to the death of Aquababy.
6:45 - I've always hated these cop-out endings from the Silver Age stories. Superman "mercifully" stranding some person or creature on a desolate uninhibited planet to "live out their days in peace"... Oh you mean go insane or starve to death. Good job hero.
@@nathanl8622 and that's all well and good for that one example. But there are other examples of Superman relocating some harmless living sentient creature. And we know full well it's going to die horribly. It's always just been something that's been upsetting to me
@@orinanime well this time it's a creature that won't die. And I don't know of any other examples but I'll presume that there's some reason they won't either. And if they go insane, so what, there's no one else around. They had a good run. Of crashing ships and killing people.
On the one hand, it's nice that they acknowledge the "Search for Mera" plotline that was going on in Aquaman's book at the time. On the other hand, it makes Aquaman look even more vain and self-centered. "Sorry, honey, I know you're missing and all, but I have to take time out to have a 'fin-measuring' contest with this punk kid with the freckles. I'll go look for you later."
Natasha: “it’s only one person who can use eels as a ladder… Aquaman” B'wana Beast: Hey, I could do that too… man everyones always forgetting about B'wana Beast, I get no respect lol
The giveaway that it wasn’t Superman should have been the idea that he would ever give Jimmy Olsen the opportunity to live in the same body of water as Lori Lemaris.
I remember what bothered me the most when I read this issue back in the day was that while the bi-monthly _Aquaman_ was covering Aquaman’s ceaseless search for his missing wife day after day facing peril after peril, Jimmy Olsen’s editor felt that is was fine to “borrow” Aquaman for this slapdash story and just imply that Aquaman is no longer obsessed with finding Mera. He’s taking a break, cuz why not?
How about "The World of 1000 Olsens"? 13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/jimmyolsen105vf-max-1400-580x868.jpg Or "The World of Doomed Olsens"? 13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/s-l160072-580x856.jpg
I love how superman just gets to decide that aqua man is no longer a king on a whim. Like imagine if he forced jimmy to be considered president after he won a game of tennis against the president. Actually superman having jimmy defeat various rulers until he becomes overlord of the world could be an interesting story.
I'm surprised at how we just took such things in stride when I was a kid- "Superman's a jerk?! Cool, let's check it out!" Ah, fun times. Also, Aqua Jimmy just has to learn how to Aquaboogie from Mr Wiggles the Worm, giving you a bump by bump rundown at the wide, wide world of wiggling.
I think Jimmy knows it's Aquaman, not because only he has the powers to makes eels into a ladder but rather that only Aqua-man would make sub survivors climb rather than calling large creatures for people to ride.
The other day I dug up my ancient copy of Jimmy Olsen #159 wherein a dicey diamond called the Star of Cathay continues sending Jimmy on special journeys , that time to Republican Rome where Jimmy leads a slave rebellion as Spartacus , presumably personally killing many Romans . It's an ongoing tale that may reveal the true identity of an elderly woman from Jimmy's actual past . Thrilling stuff that still can't compare to what Jack Kirby had in store for Jimmy not to long after that .
The old man was definitely in character for silver age Superman. With all the evil Supermen knocking around the multiverse silver age Superman would easily be best of them.
The whale that ate Jonah looks good for it's age and good old 60s villains, bring AquaJimmy and Aquaman back to the ocean instead of leaving them in the desert
Just imagining Jimmy and Aquamans conversation when “Superman” wasn’t around. AM: Great Grunions! My ability to talk with fish is of NO help! JO: (rolls eyes and sighs) Oh. Wow. AM: Putting us in peril for a contest! That doesn’t seem like Superman at all! The taunting, sure, but… JO: You’ve met his girlfriend, right? ANY of his girlfriends? AM: (long pause) We’re gonna die out here, aren’t we….?
To be fair, I wouldn't have any trouble believing that Silver Age Clark would do that just for kicks. Also, I'm curious, does Aquaman refer to his family as his mer-kin?
I find that storyarc particularly interesting since an issue of Justice League later revealed Alfred brainwashed Zatanna to act like a stereotypical witch to torment Batman and Robin.
I've read this one. Found a tattered copy in the basement of my grandparents acreage when I was a kid. It was one of only like six comics there, including an issue of Magnus: Robot Fighter, Casper and Wendy, and a few Archie.
Superman:who should i save,my friend whom i actually bully every time i met him at the job or the my fellow superhero whose life depends on water itself...damn this situation it s so stressing i need a drink to refresh my idea 🤔 Meanwhile jimmy and aquaman: ☠️☠️
Nice syncretism, with Proteus (Greek) merged with the Old Man of the Sea (Arabic) commanding Leviathan (Jewish) who is himself conflated with the fish which swallowed Jonah (also Jewish, but a different story), all to destroy Aquaman, King of Atlantis (Greek again).
Learning more about Superman and how he was in the 30s and 40s (though this works with Batman too) I have to say that I find it absolutely believable that those closest to him aren't batting an eye when he gets super aggressive and cruel. I mean, we're talking about a character that used to deliberately brutalize mobsters, slumlords, corrupt politicians, and the like. Sure, Superman got toned down as the decades went by. However, I have a feeling that, even though covers like this were meant to be shocking and were pulling a bait-and-switch, the understood sentiment was that "yeah Superman might still do something like this and we should not be too surprised if it happens". As to the outcome of the comic itself, I definitely wasn't expecting the plot at all to be what it turned into but I feel that's probably because I'm not well versed in DC lore from that era, what with the whole "Mera is missing!" backdrop for Aquaman. I thought it was just going to be a teaser to get people to buy and then the story turns out to not have a scenario anywhere close to what the cover promised, so good job
Proteus obviously went mad, dissociated his form into multiple entities, and begat a new race of shape changing blobs that in 1000 years would become Proty's race.
I like to believe that I have managed to will this video into existence. I want to test my powers further - "Sasha, yooooou shoooould make more DC vs Vampires videooooos."
I remember this issue fondly. Neal Adams did the cover art along with a great many others at that time which probably helped sell a lot of titles for DC across the board.
@@tomorrow4eva Bat Jimmy: Um, yeah, those nightly roof top jumping's really helps to burn of that cake, huh? Oh, gee golly robin, we gotta get on this case. Robin: But...gee golly's my thing.
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Merciful Minerva!! The cover page you shown at 0:27, Not the one where Lex Luthor is punching a kid versión of Superman, which I want to know everithing about, but for now, I mean the one where Batman and Robin are having an agument on a Woman we can see from behind, is she the Black Wiodow???!!!! Is Dick Grayson replaced by Natasha Romanov???
if only the status quo hadn't been returned at the end. I can't help but imagine what that would look like. Aquaman is just straight up dead and Jimmy Olsen takes over as king for about a decade before they decide to revive the Aquaman comics in which they reveal that he has been perfectly preserved in ice
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I was just about to click off a fascinating episode from Watchtower Database and due to a certain guest voice reading all of Bruce Timm's bits and Scott's halting, dramatic reading hurts my bones. Then, from out of nowhere, comes a familiar voice doing the lines of the Cruella of DC, whose name I forget (the CEO). I know this voice! I shouted and I managed about 3 more minutes of Scott's voice and then I died. It's a curse to be a talented voice actor.
