862 – The Hulk Is Yours To Command

The Incredible Hulk #3 (July 1962) is an opportunity for the creative team behind the Hulk to completely change the “rules” around the Hulk, presumably for better story-telling. Rick Jones is tricked by General “Thunderbolt” Ross into luring the Hulk into a military rocket that is shot into space. While traveling up into space, the […]

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754 – Superboy Meets Bruce Wayne

Remember that time Superboy met Oliver Queen and set him on the path to become Green Arrow? The plot is shamelessly copied in Adventure Comics #275 (June 1960) wherein Superboy reminisces about meeting Robin and then wonders if he’ll ever meet a young Bruce Wayne. Literally one panel later guess who shows up in Clark’s […]

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736 – Super-Hypnosis

In Superman’s Girlfriend, Lois Lane #17 (March 1960), Doris Drake, the world’s richest heiress learns how to read minds and accidentally stumbles onto Superman’s secret identity. Knowing this, she schemes to marry Clark Kent, but Clark Kent discovers what’s going on and uses super-hypnosis on Doris to wipe her mind clean. This is the first […]

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