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Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #49 Addendum!
A couple of months ago, I did an installment about Superman being declared 4-F. In it, I mentioned how, although the scene was referenced in the comic books, it never actually appeared IN the comics, only in the comic strips. Sadly, I did not have a copy of the comic strips. Luckily, though, the nifty website Barnacle Press recently posted the comic strips in question!
Here, courtesy of scans by Thrillmer, are the three strips from February 16-18, 1942, showing how Clark Kent was declared 4-F!
Here's a close-up look at the x-ray vision problem...
Thanks, Thrillmer!
- Posted on July 4, 2006 @ 02:03 AM
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Craig
July 4, 2006 at 7:28 am
I recently posted that I'd remembered reading in that Superman: From the 30s to the 70s book either the comic book version of this story or the collected comic strips. Given that the layout of that panel where Superman is reading the chart from the next room is exactly the way I remember it, I have to assume that the book reprints the comic strips, and made quite an impression--I haven't re-read that story in about 25 years!
Brian Cronin
July 4, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Yeah, sorry for not responding to your earlier reply, Craig. I just, well, had no idea what the answer was...hehe. But I'm glad that these strips gave you an answer!
Bully
July 5, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Weird that not every eye chart in a government office was identical. I blame Mopee.
And why is it that I can practially hear Nelson Muntz cawing "Ha ha!" after that last panel?
Brian Cronin
July 5, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Because you are evil.