Jerry lewis Meets Superman, Batman And Wonder Woman

[superfangirl1]

Jerry lewis # 105 - Superman























Jerry lewis #117 - Wonder Women
























Jerry lewis #97 -Batman

Comments

Oh God, with the forced jokes and the near-unrecognizable super LAAAAdy

[alicemacher]

I can't believe this title sold well enough for well over a hundred issues to be published. This is... it'd be an insult to bodily wastes to call it crap. The Wonder Woman story is especially bad; the writer clearly had pretty much no familiarity with the mythos at all (a male doctor on Paradise Island?!).

Re: Oh God, with the forced jokes and the near-unrecognizable super LAAAAdy

[zachbeacon]

Maybe it sold well enough in France to justify the long run?

[tcampbell1000]

In my last post to this site, I described the childlike version of the Incredible Hulk as "the dumbest hero ever to reach an issue #100," with "hero" in the loose sense of "protagonist."

I may have to revise that assessment.

I do idly wonder if even Jerry Lewis was quite this... much, or if the writer was as unfair to him as he was to everyone else in this story.

But I'm not masochistic enough to find out. By the time I became aware of American popular culture, Lewis had just one role in it: to demonstrate that being "big in Europe" was not a guarantor of quality. Sure, we big dumb Americans might've been into slicked-up Schwarzenegger and Stallone movies and cheesy made-to-order sitcoms, but at least we had gotten over goddamned Jerry Lewis.

(The Batman and Robin story is the least terrible, actually getting a few good gags out of the idea that the "real" Batman and Robin have endless headaches thanks to the West-Ward TV show. But even that isn't sustainable because the story can't be bothered to consistently distinguish them from their West-Ward incarnations.)

[bradygirl_12]

The French have a lot to answer for. They consider Jerry Lewis a comic genius!

[donnblake]

I do appreciate the reminder that, not given the chance to pick a wardrobe to hide the fact, Clark Kent is built like, well, a Superman.