A good comic can still surprise you.
And no one could ever have anticipated the team making a triumphant comeback in “The Super-Sons Annual No. 1,” now on sale.
The Doom Patrol? They’ve had more reboots than members.
The Inferior Five? Too powerful.
The Challengers of the Unknown? Too known.
The Silver Age Superman fought everything from Brainiac to bug-eyed aliens, but his greatest and most persistent threat came from those closest to him.
Girl reporter Lois Lane and first love Lana Lang both wanted to expose his secret identity or trap him in marriage. Many times they figured the first would naturally lead to the second.
The Man of Steel was pretty good at putting them off, doing his super-thing while one of his robots or Batman covered for him by pretending to be helpless schlub Clark Kent.
But there came a moment when the two alleged loves of his life teamed to learn his greatest secret and forced him to turn to an unlikely source for help.
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It is the single greatest heist in the history of this nation – from the poor and the working to the wealthy.
The tax bill the Republican-controlled Congress approved yesterday will add over a trillion to the national debt.
It will raise taxes on 92 million Americans.
Over 80 percent of the benefits go to the top 1 percent of the country.
And now that they have finally handed Trump his first legislative victory in his first year, what is this Gang of Thieves going to do next?
It starts with Santa Claus being blown up.
It ends with one of the most garish gifts in the DC Universe.
It features six super-heroes behaving criminally stupid in an Agatha Christie-style caper that climaxes with a ridiculous deus ex machina simply because the story had only so many pages and just had to end.
So why is “The Man Who Murdered Santa Claus” such a fun story – and yes, even important?
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Every collector has one.
That one comic book that somehow remains out of reach.
For some, it’s “Detective Comics” No. 27, or “Amazing Fantasy” No. 15, or maybe “The Walking Dead” No. 1.
For me, for just about forever, it has always been “Justice League of America” No. 21.
If you have even a passing familiarity with the Silver Age of Comics, you understand the significance of that issue.
This August 1963 issue was insanely important for DC and for readers.
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Mark Perigard 