The Mysterious Misdemeanors of the Prankster

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From Superman Family #184.

The Prankster is trolling Superman by committing crimes that are technically illegal per outdated laws like capturing birds at a cemetery in Idaho. Superman wonders what is going on.

Comments

[gnarll]

This story made me see Kryptonian psychology in a different perspective. I kind of formulated a theory on how it works.

Non-human and far more rigid than human psychology. Operating on levels, as opposed to gradients. Imprinting on a set of norms and rules very early in life, and not quite as adaptable in relation to changes of them as human psychology.

This actually fits into the pre-crisis portrayal of superman as having had his powers since he was a baby but demonstrating inhuman restraint.