Superman vs. the Desks of Skepticism

[galateus]

Sometimes a cover idea is so unspeakably awesome they use it not twice, not thrice, but four times: each more cracktacular than the last.

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title: action comics, era: silver age

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[punishermax]

A DESK KILLED MY BEST FRIEND. NOW ALL DESKS WILL KNOW MY WRATH

~smashes desk~

FUCKING DESK!

[seriousfic]

The Babe of Steel!

...I'm disappointed.

[pyrotwilight]

Well, if they had Supergirl on it when they said it the feminist movement might've crushed the writer. XD

[cainofdreaming]

But if they had Babe Ruth...

[autumn_lily]

What about Powergirl?

[psychopathicus_rex]

Hadn't been created yet.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Well, if they weren't already up in arms over 'Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane'...

[sherkahn]

"So Bruce was over one night after some heroics, brought some "World's Finest" green, then he also brought the green stuff to mellow me out and loosen me up... and then all I could think about was how that perfect moment was ruined by the splinter on the desk.

Damn you, cheap 30's era skilled labor!"

[icon_uk]

Few people realised just how profitable "Kent's Handcrafted Desks" was, but then few realised how much Clark did to increase sales...

[autumn_lily]

And also getting the satisfaction of breaking your boss's furniture.

[equinox216]

Or, on the slow week for his buddy... "Desks are a cowardly and superstitious lot. *BAM*!"

[ladydreamer]

Bwahaha.

[bluefall]

I like how Perry's kind of pleading with Lois there to save the both of them. "Don't let him trick us! It's all up to you!"

[bluejaybirdie]

Well, she is his star reporter...<3 Lois

[seriousfic]

Look at that suit. Look at his eyes. He's so stoned that only Lois can help him distinguish between fantasy and reality.

"This guy thinks he's Captain Knots, thinks he's Captain Tyin' Knots. When everyone needs some knots tied, they go to him. Bullshit."

[inexpediency]

Man, if one of my employees came into my office and started smashing up the desk, I wouldn't be joking around, I'd be super-pissed.

[jlroberson]

Yes, but then there's the fact that they could. I imagine you'd contain your justified rage at that point.

[psychopathicus_rex]

The idea, I think, is that they're convinced he switched the real desk for one made of Balsa wood or something. They're not mad at him because they think the real desk is still intact.

[salamangkiero]

No wonder they never got really swanky tables.

[autumn_lily]

Hey, when you're on a budget, you get the Ikea brand desks.

[ladydreamer]

And the secret origin of Lex Luthor's fortune is revealed: Lex Desks Inc. Little did Superman suspect that he had been filling his nemesis' coffers all along!

[mullon]

People were way too easily entertained in the sixties.

[zordboy]

Hah!

[lbd_nytetrayn]

If anything, it seems like we're even more entertained by this stuff now. I mean, we haven't even gone past the covers...

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

[mullon]

But we're enjoying them for their unintentional humor, not taking them at face value as a sign of something interesting.

[dalf]

Well... back then it was kinda like that for some people too.

Hmm, it's kinda like the old Batman TV show. Kids like it a lot, and they occasionaly laugh, but most of the time they just want to see what happens next. Older kids (and some adults too!) just think it's funny and over the top.

I mean, these comics were meant for kids anyway. And you can tell the artists had a blast doing crazy stuff like this.

[jlroberson]

So it's HIS fault 50s wooden desks are so expensive and hard to find. DAMN YOU SUPERMAN!

[howeverimprobable]

Hahaha these just kept getting weirder and weirder.

[halloweenjack]

Does a Superman have to smack a desk again?!?

[schala_kid]

So Ms Marvel is to cars what Superman is to desks?

[pyrotwilight]

I don't think so. Cars tend to BEAT Carol.

[crinos]

Well, that desk DID fuck Clark's Ma. That's at least a moral victory.

[bluefall]

Not true! Some days you take the car, some days the car takes you. I believe Carol's currently in the lead, though it depends on how liberally you interpret "car," what's considered canon (as you might expect, Avengers/Transformers shifts the numbers), and how you count AUs.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Those are some... INTERESTING socks Perry's wearing there...

[victory_or_death]

That's nothing.

In the second cover Perry White is wearing a purple suit and has a green filing cabinet...it's the Joker in disguise!

[psychopathicus_rex]

The Joker has disguised himself as a filing cabinet?

[victory_or_death]

And communism was a red herring!

[psychopathicus_rex]

A red STURGEON you mean, surely?

[proteus_lives]

Fuck you desks!