{"id":3169,"date":"2021-01-18T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2020-12-14T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T07:15:24","slug":"560-more-swan-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/560-more-swan-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"560 – More Swan Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Action Comics #189, December 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In Action Comics #189 (Dec 1953), the formidable team of Edmond Hamilton (writer) and Curt Swan (penciller) team up again – so it seems like I was wrong that Swan left DC soon after “The Mightiest Team in the World!<\/a>“. The story is kind of meh, but what I love about it is the breath of fresh air that is the Curt Swan Superman, since I’m so tired of the Boring one<\/a>. Finally Clark and his friends get to have some emotions on their face!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story is about a rich elderly couple whose lost explorer son looks exactly like Clark Kent. So much so that the couple wants to meet him – and maybe adopt him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another panel from Action Comics #189, December 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

So of course, there is a doctor nearby to warn Clark that refusing such a request might result in the wife “dying of a broken heart”. Who are these doctors? Clark agrees to be their adopted son, because we need a plot-of-the-month, I suppose. Unlike the Kents, Clark decides to hide his true nature from his adoptive parents to make the story more interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A forlorn Clark in Action Comics #189, December 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Note that Jimmy Olsen is present, but still sporting blonde hair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark makes a tape confessing his secret identity and leaves it for his new parents… then of course we get some nice action shots of Swan’s Superman… this is Action Comics after all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curt Swan’s Superman in Action Comics #189, December 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Curt Swan’s Superman in more Action Comics #189, December 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the end, Superman finds the situation unacceptable and goes off to find the lost son and bring him home to his parents so we can have a nice episodic reset. Before he leaves he “fuses” the tape with his x-ray vision and uses super-ventriloquism to fool everyone about the contents of the tape…. ooookay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Action Comics #189 (Dec 1953), the formidable team of Edmond Hamilton (writer) and Curt Swan (penciller) team up again – so it seems like I was wrong that Swan left DC soon after “The Mightiest Team in the World!“. The story is kind of meh, but what I love about it is the breath […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,491,14,544,445,43],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-curt-swan","tag-dc","tag-edmond-hamilton","tag-silver-age","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}