From: psperson@old.netcom.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:22:14 -0700, The Horny Goat    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Tue, 7 Oct 2025 22:04:42 -0700, Bobbie Sellers   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>	Batman has been freshly invented to take the place of Sherlock   
   >>Holmes as Master Dectective as well as acroBatic crime fighter.   
   >>Kal-El was so young he could not fly nor did he yet know his   
   >>given name but was happy to work as a reporter, with a crush   
   >>on Lois Lane. for the mighty newspaper "The Daily Planet'.   
   >>During WW II they would be joined by Bullet Man and his companion   
   >>a woman, Wonder Woman herself, Hawkman and his girl friend.   
   >>Captain America and the Star-Spangled Kid, The Human Torch   
   >>who was an Android, Daredevil who was not blind then and   
   >>several troups of children all fighting the NAZI and their spies   
   >>in our sacred USA and overseas. At the same time in the   
   >   
   >I'm skeptical of your claim that Superboy didn't understand his powers   
   >till near adulthood since DC Comics debuted Superboy in 1945 (20   
   >second Google search) but generally agree. Of course you're flipping   
   >back and forth between DC and Marvel (as you likely know) and no   
   >question the few 1941-45 reprints I've seen are all very much into   
   >"beating the Nazis" as a front and center theme - I remember the one   
   >were Superman got drafted and in his physical he read the "published   
   >by" line on the eye chart which was 6 pt type at a range of 30'. (At   
   >first they thought he had erred but then checked with a magnifying   
   >class - the things you remember 40 years later!)   
      
   When I was in BCT in Ft Ord, the story was that draftees from LA were   
   mostly washing out. Apparently, the LA eye test consisted of the   
   question "do you see that wall?" and nothing else.   
   --    
   "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,   
   Who evil spoke of everyone but God,   
   Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"   
      
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