Great Caesar's __________

[brad.ricca]

Hi all-

I've searched my dogeared Great Superman Book and the mighty Supermanica but still can't find it:

Where/When did Perry first exclaim "Great Caesar's Ghost?"

Apologies if it's in there and I missed it, but any help would be appreciated.

-Brad

www.lastson.greendoorfilms.com

[TELLE]

Good question.  No idea.

[Permanus]

Or, for that matter, when did he first start telling Jimmy not to call him "chief"?

[Super Monkey]

Not a clue, however if I had to take a wild guess, I would say perhaps the Radio Show?

[joshua neff]

I thought it came from the TV series Adventures of Superman. In fact, wasn't there an episode where some crooks took advantage of Perry's catchphrase and had a guy dressed up as the ghost of Caesar to dupe Perry?

[brad.ricca]

The TV show had an episode in 1955 based on (as far as I can tell) the comic of '54 (see Supermanica here


http://superman.nu/wiki/index.php/Great_Caesar's_Ghost!

but the whole gag of these plots seem to be (have to be) based on Perry using it over and over again earlier (so much so they made a story out of it!).  I'm thinking the radio show is a good suggestion since it was responsible for so many other things, but want to rule out the comics.  But yeah "Stop calling me Chief" is another good question.

-BR

[pajarator]

The first one I have actually seen is in Superman 86 in January 1954...
Perry says it when he hears shots at night...

[TELLE]

The only comic book ref I've seen so far...

Anyone else?