Wednesday Comics: Super Adventure! (Then and Now)
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Super Adventure Comic #43 (December, 1953)
K. G. Murray was an Australian publishing company that produced black and white reprints of DC Comics from 1947-1986. Super Adventure Comic, which featured stories starring Superman and Batman (and Robin), was one of several of these reprint titles. It ran for 115 issues between 1950 and 1960, and many (if not all) featured original covers by Australian artists. The cover for Super Adventure Comic #43 is by Hart Amos, and it depicts Superman and Robin (armed with a spear gun) ganging up on a terrified octopus. The Man of Steel has apparently wrenched the helpless cephalpod out of the water by the tip of one of its arms, and the Boy Wonder is jumping up and down on the poor creature’s head! Batman, grinning sadistically, looks on.
Also, is it just me or does Superman have a dastardly handlebar moustache?
©Stephen Halker
Fast forward to last Wednesday and Robert Goodin’s Covered blog. Artist Stephen Halker has reimagined Super Adventure Comic #43, and this time the octopus gets its revenge! No one is safe from its righteous, squishy wrath! Not the Dynamic Duo, not the Last Son of Krypton…not even the TITLE OF THE COMIC ITSELF!!!
