{"id":6974,"date":"2012-03-12T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T13:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=6974"},"modified":"2019-11-25T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T02:51:58","slug":"perry-whites-levitating-dentures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/03\/12\/perry-whites-levitating-dentures\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry White’s Levitating Dentures"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The bizarre image above is from a battered copy Of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen<\/strong><\/em> No. 131 published by DC Comics in 1970. The book was filled with a bunch of reprint material, but it’s hard to tell being that DC maintained that house style they seemed to have had since the early 1950s.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Men wore suits and hats. Women wore skirts, hats and gloves. Jimmy always had his bow tie.<\/p>\n

None of the panels were very dynamic. Most of the stories look and felt like storyboards for T<\/strong>he Adventures of Superman<\/strong><\/em> television show which I watched in reruns and tried to like, but I could never really get into them. They were too stage-bound, and the limited budget was never going to allow for a proper display of Superman’s might<\/p>\n

An adult must have bought me this comic to shut me up. I remember not liking it because of it’s lightly humorous tone. Goofy Jimmy Olsen would get into a bunch of screwball situations that Superman would extricate him from. Where were the cops and robbers? Where were the super-villains? Giant robots? Death beams? This particular comic book is probably one of the reasons why I ended up firmly planted into the Marvel Comics camp when I started spending my own dough on comics.<\/p>\n

I appreciate it more now in it’s very goofiness. Superman was big enough to float spin-offs featuring his girlfriend, his cousin and that loser kid from work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[593,767,1404,1403,1405,1402],"class_list":["post-6974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-593","tag-dc-comics","tag-dentures","tag-jimmy-olsen","tag-perry-white","tag-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12728,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/04\/22\/glows-in-the-dark\/","url_meta":{"origin":6974,"position":0},"title":"Glows in the Dark!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems that everything old is new again. 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