I remember that arc, although not in much detail. And as I remember, it was exciting and creepy. Also noirish and, by the standards of comic books, credible.

@syafiqjabar of Mars: Well, yeah. But the remedy isn't putting in different sex and violence. Traditional stories like RRH have been honed down over time, by generations of skilled storytellers. They really work, at a deep psychological level.

It's all very Kim Stanley Robinson. Except that with actual human beings, there's a chance of some credible characterization.

@m_faustus: Gotta go with Jess on this. Even as a ten-year-old boy, I used to read the paperback reprints, thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if there were stories about this terrific hero that had decent prose, credible plots, or any characterization at all?"

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Yep, those are the ones I read, then. Crazy stuff.

@Tyrunn: I love the idea for many reasons. It could rejigger the whole idea of a what a "Superman movie" looks like.

@skywalker24: Best book I read in the 2nd grade, and again in the 3rd, and probably the 4th. Taught me the right meaning of the word "sport." Haven't read it in over 30 years, but keep meaning to. Yeah, I'd recommend it.

Wertham alert! Except that, ironically, that she's looking back on those as the good old days.

@MinervaAlpaca: Argh! What have you done to me? I want to see that more than I can tell you. Was ... was ... was Charles Nelson Reilly there too?

@Wolfsheim: Oh, I think I can.

@Gothamite88: Second that. And I was weirdly psyched

@crosis101: Favorite lines from each, from memory so not quite right: (1) "The reward for being Batman is that you get to be Batman;" and (2) "Do you know what radio waves look like?" "No, why?" "Because I do."

the throne room actually looks a lot like some of those mid-late 20th century productions of Wagner's Ring. You either like that our you don't.

@omgwtflolbbqbye: Yep. Not to mention Spiderman. You know, with eight arms, a bazillion clones, and killing his own children to save a geriatric aunt.

@TickMan: At the moment, my favorite Green Lantern story of all time. Of course, I have a 3-year-old.

Of course, the idea that Captain Marvel was a Superman ripoff was eventually affirmed in court. Comics readers have long disagreed, citing the differences in tone between the two series, as well as the speciousness of National's argument — essentially, "they both have capes and big muscles."

@MrSatyre: That particular conundrum always reminds me of a moment in some 70s Avengers episode (they were fighting Kang in an underground tunnel, but that describes about half the 70s).

In the same vein, there's the gambling scene near the beginning of Moonraker, when Bond uses benzedrine to sober up in secret, allowing him to cheat Drax at cards.

Okay, so it's not great. Is it worse than the white unitard? Is it, in any important way, even different from John Byrne's biker look? Nahhh.

Holy $%& — snakes, and frogs, and bees AND bats, at least in the northeast U.S. It's really getting scary.