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Title: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Great Rao on June 05, 2006, 12:29:38 AM
Alright folks, you've read "Another Typical Day" (http://superman.nu/tales3/typical/) (discussion (http://forum.superman.nu/index.php?topic=454.0)), you've read "The DAY of the SUPER-COMET" (http://superman.nu/tales4/super-comet/) (discussion (http://forum.superman.nu/index.php?topic=2605.0)), and now, at long last, we present:

"The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!" (http://superman.nu/tales5/rivalry/)

Third in the series of 1998's Mort Weisinger tributes.


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on June 05, 2006, 08:00:26 AM
Kind of an awkward ending?


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Great Rao on June 05, 2006, 09:48:00 AM
Quote from: "Klar Ken T5477"
Kind of an awkward ending?

That was Beppo's  suggestion (http://superman.nu/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=20452t#20452), although I'd been thinking along the same lines myself.  In effect, this is all there is.  But I have a possible solution:

If anyone ever puts together a good outline or script for "Part II", we can have it drawn up as a complete full-color, finished comic and put online.

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Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Super Monkey on June 05, 2006, 12:05:36 PM
Trust me, you don't really want to know what happen next. :gah:


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on June 05, 2006, 12:22:07 PM
Bruce Wayne came from Krypton?

Wait - it's a birthday hoax! :wink:  I'll take a respite in Gardner Fox's "What If" room and see if anything bites me - as long as it isn't one of those thought beasts cause they always think the same thing!


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Great Rao on June 06, 2006, 10:05:33 AM
Quote from: "Klar Ken T5477"
Bruce Wayne came from Krypton?

Wait - it's a birthday hoax! :wink:

Both of those ideas are brilliant.  Maybe the red K, or the Toyman, fit in somehow too.  Or Maybe this is a Batman who's actually from another Earth but got stuck here somehow.  Or Maybe Superman was unknowingly transported to a duplicate Earth populated by robots...

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Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on June 06, 2006, 09:41:39 PM
Quote from: "Great Rao"
 Or Maybe Superman was unknowingly transported to a duplicate Earth populated by robots...
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Yessssss!  A billion years in the future!!!! :shock:  :D


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Continental Op on June 07, 2006, 07:23:41 PM
The scene where Clark shows up for work with the hat is fantastic!


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: TELLE on June 07, 2006, 10:59:31 PM
It's funny I've never heard of these stories before.  They are quite charming and it's sad that they are later retconned as part of some Iron Age plot.

Some very nice touches, like the Bat-pager.  The big difference is that so little plot is fit into the comic.  Modern comics are only 15-20 pages, but the whole thing would have been resolved in that space back in the 60s.  Reading the stories online, I scroll down, expecting to see another panel, and all I see is the bottom of the panel I'm reading --wasted space, showing some legs or trees!  What's so great about the art of Todd Grummett (besides his nationality) that he can't fit in a few more panels per page?

The real resolution: the Red K induced cranium actually causes Superman to project an illusion of his fondest desire for a brother and the real reason Batman is in town is to track down a plot to infect Metropolis by the Red K Gang who are using a tracker on Lois and Jimmy to get close to Superman --Batman needs to keep her away from Superman so they can't get near him.

Question: Superman's "brother" in the Phantom Zone? Mon-el?


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Great Rao on June 08, 2006, 12:09:06 AM
Quote from: "Continental Op"
The scene where Clark shows up for work with the hat is fantastic!

Yeah, that was why I had to add the story to the site - just for that one scene.

Quote from: "TELLE"
Question: Superman's "brother" in the Phantom Zone? Mon-el?

Makes sense to me.  They thought they were brothers when they first met, and lived as such for a bit, before Mon got his memory back.

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Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Super Monkey on June 08, 2006, 01:03:14 AM
Better yet make it so it was Halk Kar, again, this time he thought that Superman of Earth-1 was his brother for sure, but at last, he isn't his real brother either  :P

Poor Halk Kar  :?


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Vic George 2K6 on July 16, 2006, 06:40:16 AM
So how's this going to get finished off without the Dominus-Kismet substory connection? Stay tuned.


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: dto on July 16, 2006, 12:09:31 PM
Hmm... how many "Superman brothers" appeared Pre-Crisis (including "Imaginary Stories")?  I've located:


Halk-Kar (Superman #80) From Thoron

Zal-El (Superman #132)  Imaginary Story younger brother

Knor-El (Superman #200)  Imaginary Story younger brother

Robert "Kent"? (Superboy #18 ) Temporarilly adopted by the Kents

Mon-El (Superboy #89) From Daxam

Jimmy Olsen (Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #19) Amnesiac delusion

Mickey Moran (Superman #256) Clark Kent's "kid brother for a day"

Cory Renwald (Superman #389) "Foster brother"?

Kor-El (World’s Finest Comics #246-7) Actually a disguised Parasite

And I do recall an Imaginary Story where Bruce Wayne was adopted by the Kents (plus one more where Bruce thought he came from Krypton), and another Imaginary Story where Lex Luthor as adopted.


Title: Re: "The SUPER-RIVALRY that ROCKED METROPOLIS!"
Post by: Great Rao on July 16, 2006, 03:06:57 PM
Quote from: "Vic George 2K6"
So how's this going to get finished off without the Dominus-Kismet substory connection? Stay tuned.

We've got a few story ideas.  Stay tuned is right!

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