When Superman learned to fly

[arbre_rieur]

Three pages from ACTION COMICS 5 and four from issue 6...







Remember, ACTION COMICS takes place at the beginning of Superman's career, so it's a time traveling Superman from the future in all the following scenes, working alongside the Legion of Superheroes.



The octopus is Erik Drekken (What, no snazzy codename, Morrison?), a villain with a pretty neat power. He's basically like Evolvo Lad from the Heroes of Lallor or Manikin from Alpha Flight, but to the nth power.



That leads into the scene that superfangirl posted, in which Superman searches his memory to find where it's wonky, in order to pinpoint the exact spot in his mind the bad guys are hiding.



Inside a tesseract in Superman's brain, the Legion successfully defeats the Anti-Superman Army and recover the kryptonite engine from them.

Comments

[icon_uk]

How old is Clark supposed to be in the flashback, still running around with a cape (when not actually a superhero) seems to be the trait of a much younger kid than being one of the Legion.

[superfangirl1]

His age looks like to me between 12 or 13 years old?

[icon_uk]

That makes sense, though I imagined him being a little older when the Legion recruited him.

[deepspaceartist]

I would imagine actually having superpowers is all the justification an older child would need to go running around in a cape.

[icon_uk]

Except, since Superman is the FIRST superhero in this world, there would BE no connection of capes with superbeings (Unless, like Bruce, he's a Zorro or Three Musketeers fan)

[filthysize]

Pete Ross mentioned in this issue that he wanted to become a superhero like in the comics he read, and that gave Clark the idea to become one himself. So I think superheroes did exist as a concept, in comic books.

[kamino_neko]

Which only makes sense...until public superheroes start appearing (as opposed to metahumans like Stormwatch, or Vandal Savage and Ra's al-Ghul operating in the shadows) the world should be as much like ours as possible, and since superheroes didn't start appearing in this world at the same time they did in the comics of our world, they ought to have been appearing in comics in-universe, as well.