Edit: it was "M'Onel" and "Lar Gand". I feel so embarrassed. (Always preferred "Bob Cobb" myself.)

Yeah, at least later writers have made an effort to connect all the initial handwavium into something that appeared consistent. I always liked Mon-El (or M'Nel, or Valor, or Lor-Gann, or whatever they're calling him in present continuity), and the idea of a whole planet of Supermen fascinated me. It fascinated…

So am I, if my last comment was really in May of 2012! Cheese!!

I actually owned 8 of these! (Yes, I'm old.) You got used to these covers fairly quickly as a kid in the 60's and 70's. The "shocking secret" was, 9 times out of 10, something like "Superman is just pretending to fool some really naive alien invaders."

Edward Gorey was the modern master of things of this nature - though I suppose you would have to be a very special type of parent to actually read Gorey to your kids...

But ten years from now we invalidate the results of the voting.

I love this idea! And this is probably really wrong, but now I have Selina Kyle (Julie Newmar version, rrowr!) singing "What's It All About, Alfie?" in my head...

She had me at the Bat-Mite doll on Babs' bed! Lauren Faust is awesome.

In practice, it's a bit different from what the article implies, at least where I live. My county in Tennessee is "dry", but my town recently went "moist" (liquor can be bought in bars and clubs). Even when we were "dry", you could buy beer anywhere, and if you wanted something harder you just drove a few miles north…

Was just about to say that myself!

Another good one from PvP.

Geesh. I can't be the only one who wishes he could travel back in time and whop Chris Claremont upside the head with something sizable before he went completely batsh*t! (Can't pinpoint the exact moment, but it's somewhere between the Brood Saga and Logan's "wedding".) Betsy Braddock was just fine as a character…

Dang it, Esther, this is just too much fun!

Aguaman: Talks to fish... en Espanol!

I hearted Octopussoup for this one, then scrolled down and saw you got to it first, so you get a heart, too! Please excuse my lassitude in not checking out the whole thread first! Signed, Osterman's Mother

You just got yourself hearted for "Horshach"! "And I'll look down and whisper, 'HUH-HUH-HUH-HUHHH!!!'"

My favorite DC logo ever. Damn, I miss Ambush Bug...

I will love Q forever for this one single line: when he tricks the tough guys he owes money to into peeking into the nest at the top of the Chrysler Building and the monster grabs them, Moriarty yells, "Yeah, EAT 'EM!!!"

Well, not that I don't agree that the whole project is a bad idea; but at least Conner (if it is Conner) seems to be aware of some of the original work's satirical content. Laurie appears to have just beaten the crap out of some filthy hippie peaceniks.

This isn't exactly a new idea. I had this in paperback in 1978 (wish I still did, it's selling on Amazon for $55 used!). However, the author was perhaps a bit overzealous in his interpretations of lunar photographs. I mean, I was a teenager willing to believe, and even I was going, "Dude, that's a rock."