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Title: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: Super Monkey on April 18, 2007, 09:30:22 PM oh oh...
http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/04/cuz_im_the_taxm.html :) Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: Uncle Mxy on April 18, 2007, 10:50:00 PM I wish I could claim random non-citizens as dependents. :)
I have to wonder if Rupert Brand was modeled on someone in particular. Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: jamespup on April 19, 2007, 02:53:48 AM I have that story somewhere, maybe in an Annual, but I don't think that it's from Superman #149
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/pre-crisis-reviews/pre-crisis-mmrs-intro.php?topic=c-review-pc-sup149 Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: bizarromark on April 19, 2007, 09:34:31 AM I have that story somewhere, maybe in an Annual, but I don't think that it's from Superman #149 http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/pre-crisis-reviews/pre-crisis-mmrs-intro.php?topic=c-review-pc-sup149 Hi...I'm the guy who runs that particular blog. Let me assure you, the story IS from Superman #149. In fact, the panels were scanned directly from my very own copy of Superman #149. I'm sure it's been reprinted elsewhere since then, but the story originally appeared in that issue. Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: davidelliott on April 19, 2007, 01:02:20 PM I remember that story! I was reprinted in the '70's in one of those 100 Pagers. A pretty innovative story, I think, for it's time.
Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: bizarromark on April 19, 2007, 04:45:59 PM I have that story somewhere, maybe in an Annual, but I don't think that it's from Superman #149 http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/pre-crisis-reviews/pre-crisis-mmrs-intro.php?topic=c-review-pc-sup149 Hi...I'm the guy who runs that particular blog. Let me assure you, the story IS from Superman #149. In fact, the panels were scanned directly from my very own copy of Superman #149. I'm sure it's been reprinted elsewhere since then, but the story originally appeared in that issue. Whoops! Waitaminute. I did get the issue number wrong. I actually scanned the panels from Superman #148 (with Mxyzptlk and a bunch of bogus Supermen on the cover)....so GREAT CATCH! I knew I could rely on my fellow Superman fans to set me straight! I'll correct the blog entry. Whew! Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: jamespup on April 19, 2007, 08:54:52 PM Wow, I DO indeed have the original ! Thanks for the correction !
Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: Johnny Nevada on April 20, 2007, 12:53:37 AM From what I've read, the story mentioned above is a recycled version (with more Silver Age elements like Bizarro added) of an earlier story from "Superman" #114 in July 1957, "Superman's Billion Dollar Debt":
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=13629&zoom=4 (the cover of "Superman" #114) http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=16494 (info/the cover for "Superman" #148) Some online (and a book I read about Silver Age comics once) suggested the two stories' similiarities might be handwaved away by declaring #114 as happening on Earth-2, with the latter, updated version in #148 happening on Earth-1... Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: Permanus on April 20, 2007, 02:46:20 AM I think Will Eisner may have pioneered this type of story in The Spirit, who once had to explain that the tax on Denny Colt's estate had all been paid.
Title: Re: Superman VS the TAXman Post by: Spaceman Spiff on April 21, 2007, 05:58:27 PM This story should be in Showcase Presents Superman Volume 3, which was just published.
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