From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 10/9/25 08:54, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   	I am not talking about Superboy but Superman in the 1930s and 1940s.   
   	Well I am going by the comics canon and Superman aka Kal-El was very   
   strong. So strong that he could "leap tall buildings in a single bound"   
   and was   
   "faster than a speeding bullet".  He could not fly despite "being more   
   powerful   
   than a speeding Locomotive".  As time went by he started to fly rather than   
   leaping tall buildings.  A few uears in he was on a radio show that shouted   
   "Look up in the sky, is it a bird? Is it a plane?" "No it is Superman,   
   strange   
   visitor from another planet."   
      
   	Of course you know that the first superhero whose main power   
   was durability was Popeye the Sailor.  He comforted the lucky hen   
   while they were both imprisoned in the hold of the Sea Hag's ship.   
   The hen (likely the Phoenix in disguise) gave him the power to   
   resist all damage.  Check the works of the Japanese manga and   
   anime artist Osamu Tezuka aka the 'God of Manga" to find out   
   how the Phoenix interferes in the lives of mortals.   
      
   bliss - a font of nearly useless information about images poorly   
   printed on cheap paper for the profit of publishers and amusement   
   of young people who knew no better.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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