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red corellian
03-31-2005, 11:46 AM
Ok, this has been bugging me for like... however long it's been since history channel did their big "comic book history" show.. And, I know nothing about superman comic lore outside of the really old stuff, tv, and movies.
They said Lois Lane got killed in the WTC attacks... but, was that just a special issue? Or is she really dead in the series?
Absalom
03-31-2005, 12:02 PM
Must've been a special issue.
In comics she's (unfortunately) still alive and well.
red corellian
03-31-2005, 12:50 PM
Ok, from what they were saying on the show, it made it sound like they'd really axed her. That was what was confusing meh.
Gernot
03-31-2005, 01:21 PM
Were they talking about Lois Lane, the character in the comics, or one of the actresses who'd played Lois Lane?
It almost sounds like the urban myth that had the actor who played Wally Cleaver dying in Viet Nam.
DC never acknowledged 9/11. The day after the attacks, one of the Superman books came out and the book concerned the end of the Imperiex War. They showed panels of cities around the world that suffered damage during the War, and the Twin Towers were shown burning.
That was the SECOND time something like this had happened to a Superman comic! ;)
If you don't know of the first, say so, and I'll tell ya. ;)
SuperManny
03-31-2005, 01:25 PM
DC never acknowledged 9/11. The day after the attacks, one of the Superman books came out and the book concerned the end of the Imperiex War. They showed panels of cities around the world that suffered damage during the War, and the Twin Towers were shown burning.
That's not entirely true....there was a Superman issue the following year by Loeb, featuring Uncle Sam, which was a semi-tribute to the American way and the tragedy on 9/11 (it was mentioned).
If you don't know of the first, say so, and I'll tell ya. ;)
Umm....a stain on Superman's blue costume?
Anybody else want to give it a guess?
stealthwise
03-31-2005, 01:35 PM
Anybody else want to give it a guess?
Wasn't it when they had Superman meeting JFK? The comic came out sometime after he was assassinated, I believe.
Wasn't it when they had Superman meeting JFK? The comic came out sometime after he was assassinated, I believe.Wasn't there also a Wonder Woman comic that had a cover with a headline that read: "Princess Diana dies" or something, and it came out very shortly before Princess Di really died?
davids
03-31-2005, 03:28 PM
batman crashes the batmobile into a sky scraper taking out luthor, with lois dying. The book was delayed because of the wtc attack and had to be changed. Now Braniac destroys most or half of metropolis lois dies, we know this because superman finds her locket with her and his pitcher [clark kent] in it. Lois and clark were not married, they do have feelings Superman tells his daughter about sex. 'never with mortals their to fragile!" wonder woman was his lover and mother of his daughter. she was also pregnant again at the end of the story.
Gernot
03-31-2005, 04:10 PM
No, Stealthwise is the closest one to getting it right.
Superman had to go to a special testimonial dinner in his honor. Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, Bruce Wayne, and Clark Kent were all supposed to be in attendance. Superman couldn't use a Clark Kent robot, because Lois Lane was trying to prove he and Kent were the same person, and had some device that would render any robot useless as soon as she got near it.
At the dinner, Clark Kent and Superman both appeared. Lois tried her device on both, and the thing failed. She took a pair of scissors to Kent's hair and it cut. She went home that night convinced once again that Clark Kent could not POSSIBLY be Superman (until the next time she suspected him).
Later, Superman and "Clark Kent" were discussing their success at protecting Superman's secret identity, as "Kent" took off his glasses and wig, revealing himself to be President Kennedy!
"If you can't trust the President, who CAN you trust?" asked Superman.
All was well, until the very next day. You see, that issue of Action Comics hit the stands on Wednesday, November 22, 1963. People thought (incorrectly, of course) that Superman would ONLY trust a dead man with his secret. They didn't know that the book had been planned, written, and drawn MONTHS prior to its release. The book was VERY quickly pulled off the shelves.
Gernot...
Gernot
03-31-2005, 04:11 PM
P.S. You're absolutely right about the Uncle Sam story, SuperManny. I'd completely forgotten about it.
red corellian
04-01-2005, 12:22 PM
Wow. Hrmm. Thanks guys :D
stealthwise
04-01-2005, 02:13 PM
Thanks, Gernot, I had forgotten the specifics on that issue.
sikkbones
04-01-2005, 02:20 PM
No, Stealthwise is the closest one to getting it right.
Superman had to go to a special testimonial dinner in his honor. Lois Lane, Jimmy Olson, Bruce Wayne, and Clark Kent were all supposed to be in attendance. Superman couldn't use a Clark Kent robot, because Lois Lane was trying to prove he and Kent were the same person, and had some device that would render any robot useless as soon as she got near it.
At the dinner, Clark Kent and Superman both appeared. Lois tried her device on both, and the thing failed. She took a pair of scissors to Kent's hair and it cut. She went home that night convinced once again that Clark Kent could not POSSIBLY be Superman (until the next time she suspected him).
Later, Superman and "Clark Kent" were discussing their success at protecting Superman's secret identity, as "Kent" took off his glasses and wig, revealing himself to be President Kennedy!
"If you can't trust the President, who CAN you trust?" asked Superman.
All was well, until the very next day. You see, that issue of Action Comics hit the stands on Wednesday, November 22, 1963. People thought (incorrectly, of course) that Superman would ONLY trust a dead man with his secret. They didn't know that the book had been planned, written, and drawn MONTHS prior to its release. The book was VERY quickly pulled off the shelves.
Gernot...
how much is this comic worth now?
666MasterOfPuppets
04-06-2005, 12:46 PM
A nice piece of info. Thanks people.
PatrickG
04-06-2005, 05:33 PM
DC did sortof acknowledge 9-11 in a charity oneshot co-published with a number of other publishers entitled 9-11.
There's a piece about Firefighters wishing Superman was real, a cute little piece about Krypto by Jeph Loeb and Carlos Pacheco about Krypto helping the rescue dogs that were used to find survivors. There were a variety of other pieces too.
None of this is "continuity" per se.
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