May 18, 2008
September 3, 2007
Superman
Superman used unconscious super-hypnosis magnified through his spaceship window glasses to convince everyone Clark didn’t look like Superman.
April 11, 2007
From RCDU…
I just started reading the first issues of batman and was a little
suprised. In the first issue alone he machine-guns a bunch of
gangsters to death, throws a mad scientist out a window and assumes he
dies (although it was into water and we all know what that means…)
and then lets 2 men who were mutated by the professor to beat each
other to death cause they were better off that way…
I know it was a different time and all, but when did his no killing
rule really go into effect for both good AND bad guys, 50’s? 60s?
> >According to Wikipedia, the no-killing rule came into play after the
> >first issue of Batman, after which the editor invented the rule. That
> >would’ve been about 1939 or 1940.
>
> Specifically October 1940, DC under new editor F. Whitney Ellsworth
> introduced their board of review, composed of educators, celbrities
> and psychologists dedicated to making sure all their publications were
> “clean and wholesome”. Batman no longer carried a gun and Superman
> was no longer allowed to dispose of criminals by throwing them “way up
> high”.