New Powerset: Silver Age Weirdness

[Octogoat]

11 hours ago, Techwright said:

As silly as that was, I always chalked it up to Kryptonian technology, rather than any power he possessed. With his dad the leading scientist of Krypton, I'd expect the rocket came packed with useful Kryptonian science and technology.  Adapting it to be a quick peel-off and toss feature of his chest shield seems reasonable.  The real problem was that it was a one-and-done concept.  I don't believe it even had a Chekov's smoking gun build-up in the story.  A bit more explanation or appearances would have moved it off the shelf of the bizarre. 

 

What would you call that though the supinkydink?

[JKCarrier]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

As silly as that was, I always chalked it up to Kryptonian technology, rather than any power he possessed. With his dad the leading scientist of Krypton, I'd expect the rocket came packed with useful Kryptonian science and technology.  Adapting it to be a quick peel-off and toss feature of his chest shield seems reasonable.  The real problem was that it was a one-and-done concept.  I don't believe it even had a Chekov's smoking gun build-up in the story.  A bit more explanation or appearances would have moved it off the shelf of the bizarre. 

I wouldn't be surprised if, in some early draft of the script, he just wrapped the bad guys up in his cape (a maneuver he used to do all the time back in the '70s). But someone decided that was either too mundane, or too hard to stage, or whatever, so we ended up with the Decal of Doom^TM instead. I remember comic book writer Denny O'Neil joked about how the screenwriters for multi-million-dollar movies could pull random nonsense that his editor would never let him get away with in a 25-cent comic book. 😄

[Techwright]

6 hours ago, Octogoat said:

 

What would you call that though the supinkydink?

I'd call it the Superwrap, but that's probably already the name of his custom burrito at Chipotle restaurants.

[Scarlet Shocker]

On 11/9/2024 at 9:38 PM, DoctorDitko said:

"I'm full of tinier men!"

 

Aquatic beings known as "Sea men" no doubt.

 

I love the silver age because I remember, as I got into comics in the early 70s, there were lots of people in my real life who were even weirder than that.

 

Some of the strangest seem to have become elevated to high office.

[Snarky]