Ah, vintage Superman comics, always so full of crack. In the Superman Annual (v1) #03 from 1961 Lois learns a good lesson for dumping another dude for Superman. She promised she'll go on a date with him but since she has another date with Superman 3 hours later, she tries to scare the other guy away. Nothing should come in between her and the Man of Steel!

It was both a lesson to the young readers and Lois obsessing over Superman. She wanted to marry him so much she didn't realize at first he was tricking her. The usual.

Would she accept him the way he is if he was actually... ugly? What if Superman had a secret he kept from the entire world? Learn this and more in the hilarious story of "The Two Faces of Superman!" The entire 8-page story is underneath the cut.



One of the outfits Lois is wearing looks very much like Kate Bosworth's in Superman Returns! Coolio.

( 'Now that we're engaged, would you tell me the secret of your identity?' 'Of course! Come to my apartment right now and I'll reveal it to you!' )

That's all Superman and Lois did back then. Teaching each other lessons. *laugh* Nice way of showing kids how to behave, what not to do, etc. But they could be very mean about it, both of them. Superman was often acting like an ass and all Lois thought about was tricking him into marriage.

I'm glad we live in different times now and that comics aren't strictly for kids anymore.

Since we all agreed the scene in Superman Returns where Superman is standing by the door of the plane in the middle of a stadium was not out of character as some angry "fan" proclaimed, I thought I'd post scans from a Superman comic where he is indeed out of character and it's shocking and so NOT HIM that you're dying to find out why he's acting that way.

Superman (v2) #188 from 2003 starts with a smiling Superman throwing a car at a shocked, random and what looks like low-level villain. The bad guy already surrendered but Superman keeps toying with him, visibly enjoying himself. He grabs him, still grinning weirdly: "Metropolis is my city. The people here are under my protection. From the north shore to the south river, it's all mine. Have you seen the south river?" And then he THROWS the bad guy in a big loop over skyscrapers, probably toward the said river.

"Oh my God, he'll die!" a woman standing nearby says. The pleased Superman replies nonchalantly: "Nah, he's got armor on."
The owner of the car that Superman trashed just moments before complains to the "hero": "What about my car?!"

Get this, Superman grins: "I'll burn my autograph into it. You can sell it on eBay."

*stares in disbelief* THAT'S out of character, people. Why is Superman acting so strangely? It's only one incident among several that day. It's actually a very sad, sad story that'll break your heart by the last page. You'll see.



( Jimmy: 'Have you heard about Superman? He's on some kind of rampage, trashing bad guys, wrecking personal property... And he's making JOKES while he does it.' )

Superman #656 from last year has a great flashback to Clark's post-high school years when he traveled the world and got on an archaeological dig in Western Australia. That and he looks like Tom Welling. :)

Clark's the kind of guy who'd sign up for an archaeology volunteer program or research, in this case he joined Professor Lang's (Lana's uncle) dig because he needed cash for his travels. He says he "joined up in Perth, using the family connection to get a job lifting and carrying for a few weeks".
He's part of an amazing discovery: a giant trilobite appears on the site and nearly crushes one of the archaeology students! Clark zooms her to safety at superspeed but disappears right away. The girl Callie never gets to see his face and later tells Clark she thinks it was "Super-boy". Clark's response is interesting... See scans.



( 'It was years ago. I was recently out of high school, traveling the world, trying to figure out my life - what I was going to do, to be.' )