Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Addendum

By: Sidney M

Sidney M — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:59:04 +0000

I have a copy of “Amazing World of Superman”, an oversize published in 1973. It has a bunch of photos from the TV show, reprints, a large foldout map of Krypton, and so on. If you go to the bottom of page 15, there’s a map of all the Kryptonian survivors routes to Earth (Supergirl, Krypto, etc.) Super Menace is there also, listed under “historic accident”. So if this character was officially declared imaginary by 1964, someone in 1973 goofed.

Also, and I’m only going by memory on this one since I don’t have the original book, there was a Superman encyclopedia back in the 70s. It may have mentioned Super Menace. Again, I can’t confirm that one but it might be worth checking out.

By: T.

T. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:34:00 +0000

Brian wrote:

a twin of baby Kal-El that was raised to be both a Super-Brat, then a Super-Bully and finally, a Super-Menace?

I’m guessing that “both” is a mistake since you listed three things instead of two?

By: JR

JR — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:12:25 +0000

That story’s in the 2nd Superman Showcase volume, T. The gangsters actually fired at Super-Menace while he was coming out of the rocket he landed in.

By: T.

T. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:41:38 +0000

oops, that should read “ONE of the commenters”….

By: T.

T. — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:41:11 +0000

What I’d love to see is a scan of the scene of the commenters mentioned in an earlier post…where the gangsters that find Super-Menace as an infant discover that he’s superhuman. The commenter said the gangsters enter a room or something, see a baby sitting there, and immediately proceed to shoot at it! Was he pulling our leg or did this really appear?

By: Steve Flack

Steve Flack — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:07:21 +0000

Is there a scan of this online anywhere? I’d love to see it.