Superman Through the Ages! Forum

There was recently a revision to Supermanica that corrected the color of the sun around the planet Staryl from orange to blue.  Its been years since I had the original comic but my understanding is that the original comic stated the sun was orange and that a re-printing stated it was blue (to avoid questions of Superman's powers).

Does anyone remember how it was originally told?

I still haven't even read it (lo after all these years) despite a super-tantalizing cover!  The sun is orange on the cover.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16956&zoom=4 (http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=16956&zoom=4)

The cover makes it even more confusing.  I have a hunch that a reprint may have said blue and the cover wasn't used...

But I'm not sure.

Or recolored.

Don't the Bizarros lose their powers under a blue sun or am I dreaming?

That may have had something to do with it. The internet is about split on the color, and I haven't found a source for the original story.

No, Bizarro Kryptonite is blue - isn't it? According to the Maggin novel, Superman has reduced powers under a blue sun, but they're still pretty impressive, since he squeezes a lump of coal to form diamonds; I sort of assume that's canonical.

The story is reprinted in Superman in the Sixties, but it is quite confusing. The sun appears in three panels on page 11, and it is colored orange each time. But in panel 1, Superman thinks, "The second planet revolving around that blue sun is . . . Staryl!" Yet in panel 5, Superman says, "You're a Superwoman due to the solar rays of your orange sun!"
???

Now I have some tangential questions:

(1) Did Luma ever re-appear (I mean for real, not a flashback/cameo/impersonator)?
(2) Does the "S" on Luma's costume stand for Superwoman? Both Superman and Supergirl referred to her as "a Superwoman" in her debut story, but did she call herself that? Or is it just a Starylian symbol that resembles an "S"?

And a tangential observation:
I just noticed that Superman in the Sixties has the picture of Superman catching Luma (page 11 panel 4 of her debut story) reprinted on the title page, but Luma's costume is colored to look like Kara's. Quite strange looking, though, since Luma has gloves and shorts (rather than Kara's skirt) and of course, her "S" symbol is in a circle rather than a pentagon.

All these things are truly ODD...

I wonder if there IS an answer.  I'm fairly certain that Luma's S stands for "super" as she was the super woman of Staryl, and no, she never appeared again.

Now THAT's a shame as she looks exactly like how Supergirl will look when she's grown up!

Sigh////////////

I just checked the original and its consistently shown and stated as orange, so any confusion with changing it to blue begins with the reprints.

Thanks, that's what I needed to confirm.

Indeed it was,I remember reading this story as a kid. The Orange rays of Staryl's sun reduced Kal's powers rather than removing them,which sorta made sense. A blue sun should have boosted Kal's powers instead of removing them  8)