#john sikela

[cantsayidont]

August 1940. Perhaps the most important Superman story never published: In the summer of 1940, Jerry Siegel wrote a complete script for a 26-page Superman epic (the length of two normal Superman stories of this period) in which Superman is weakened by a passing meteor of radioactive metal from the destroyed planet Krypton, here called "K-Metal." That alone would have been noteworthy, but that's far from all. Later in the story, Superman reveals his true identity to the survivors of a mine cave-in, including Lois Lane!

The other three witnesses are subsequently killed, but Lois now knows the truth. She and Superman then have the following conversation:

LOIS: Now I begin to see. Your attitude of cowardliness as Clark Kent-- It was just a screen to keep the world from learning who you really are! But there's one thing I must know: Was your--er--affection for me, in your role as Clark, also a pretense? SUPERMAN: THAT was the genuine article, Lois! LOIS: How foolish you were not to let me in on the secret! You should have known you could trust me! Why-- Don't you realize-- I might even be of great help to you? SUPERMAN: You're right! There were many times when I could have used the assistance of a confederate. Why didn't I think of it before? LOIS: Then it's settled! We're to be--partners! SUPERMAN: Yes -- partners!

It isn't quite so easy, however. After returning to Metropolis, Lois tells Clark, "I just remembered how long you've secretly been laughing at me! I don't like to be laughed at, Clark Kent-- But-- I'll assist you… Only for the good of humanity, however!"

Most of the art for this story was completed, or nearly completed, by Joe Shuster's shop artists before National-DC pulled the plug. The exact reasons are now unknown, although the most likely explanation is that the story just seemed like too much of a shift in the established dynamics of the Superman strip, which was by then running in newspapers and on the radio as well as in the comics. K-Metal, renamed Kryptonite, resurfaced in a 1943 radio storyline, which borrows some elements from this script, but Kryptonite wouldn't appear in the comics until 1949, and it wouldn't be until decades later that Lois Lane really and truly learned the secret.

For background on this story, see Mark Waid's article in ALTER EGO #26 (July 2003). The Superman Through the Ages website has a nearly complete recreation of the full story, done by modern artists (in color) based on the surviving pages of original art and Siegel's script, which Waid had carefully retyped using the same kind of typewriter Siegel used.

#comics #golden age superman #jerry siegel #joe shuster #wayne boring #john sikela #costin stefan #mark waid #kryptonite #clark kent #superman #lois lane #kryptonite was an important part of the radio show #featuring in four major storylines of the mid 1940s #no idea why it took till 1949 for it to appear in the comics

[alternateworldcomics]

The Superman story in World's Finest # 7, 1941

Back when the Fortress of Solitude was closer to home... and harder to miss.

Art by Art by Ed Dobrotka and John Sikela

#superman #fortress of solitude #Ed Dobrotka #john sikela

[comfortfoodcontent]

Superman Vol. 1 #17

Writers Jerry Siegel Pencilers Joe Shuster Inkers John Sikela

#dc #dc comics #superman #comfort food superman #jerry siegel #joe shuster #john sikela

[nerds-yearbook]

Marvel's first entry into the Direct Comic Market was Dazzler 1#. DC comic's first Direct Market comic was Superboy Spactacular 1, with a cover date of March, 1980. The issue was mostly made up of stories reprinted from Superboy 67, 78, 79, 83, and 88. ("The Origin of Superboy's Costume", "The Dreams of Doom", Life on Krypton!", "The One-Man Team!", "The Three Secret Indentities of Superboy", "The Man Who Destroyed Krypton", "The Puzzle of the Disappearing Pitcher!" Superboy Spectacular 1, DC Comic Event)

#nerds yearbook #real life event #comic book #dc comics #dc #march #1980 #superboy #superboy spectacular #john sikela #jerry siegel #george papp #robert bernstein #otto binder #al plastino #bill finger #e nelson bridwell #curt swan #ma kent #pa kent #smallville #jonathon kent #martha kent #kryptonite kid #kryptonite dog #mr mxyzptlk #jor el #lana lang #klax ar #bash bashford

[eliah]

#adventure comics #237 #superboy #dc comics #1957 #jerry coleman #john sikela #clark kent #kal-el

[dirtyriver]

"So here I am... a girl!" May all parents be as accepting as Ma Kent.

"Claire Kent, Alias Super-Sister!" in Superboy #78, January 1960, written by Otto Binder, art by John Sikela

#Comics #Superboy #Otto Binder #John Sikela

[finitecrisis]

We revisit Metamorpho, for the first time since Finite Crisis no. 1!

June Moone was created by Bob Haney and Howard Purcell, and Lewis Lang was created by Bill Finger and John Sikela!

#finite crisis #metamorpho #rex mason #bill finger #bob haney #june moone #lewis lang #howard purcell #john sikela

[blorb-el]

🎁 pre crisis Clark my beloved

some miscellaneous panels that made me mutter god i love him out loud

sulfuric acid bath time: superboy 2, “don’t miss the stunts of superboy!” 1949, script uncredited, pencils john sikela, inks ed dobrotka

him giving the scrap from the explosion back: action 269, “the truth mirror,” 1960, script jerry siegel, pencils curt swan, inks stan kaye

him making a miniature fucking sun/hydrogen bomb in order to fight dracula: superman 344, “the monsters among us,” 1980, script paul levitz after len wein, pencils curt swan, inks frank chiaramonte, colors glynis oliver, letters ben oda

#hims...... #golden silver and bronze ages :') #the miniature sun didn't even finish off dracula phantom stranger stopped by to put him in jail #thanks for the ask :^) #l-i-n-u-s-k-a #clark kent

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Dawn of the Duelverse - (an alternate Post-Crisis DC Historia)

by IGeo An alternate history of the Post-Crisis DC Universe. The Anti-Monitor's mad dream of erasing positive matter from existence has been dashed. By all accounts, The Multiverse should've been made one. Instead, by some unknown means, mitosis occurred. Now what was five is only two. In the aftermath of the crisis, with the worlds of the Justice Society and Justice League dividing the spoils of the other surviving three between them, the new "Duelverse" finds itself settling into a new paradigm. Worlds have lived, worlds have died, and nothing will ever be the same. Words: 1205, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Justice Society of America (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Justice League of America (Comics), Infinity Inc. (Comics), Kingdom Come (Comics), Green Lantern (Comics), Superman (Comics), The Question (Comics), Power Girl (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, Multi, Other Characters: Judy Garrick, Jay Garrick, Alan Scott (DCU), Kent Nelson, Al Pratt, Kal-L | Earth-2 Superman, Bruce Wayne, Vic Sage, David Sikela, Kyle Rayner, Karen Starr | Kara Zor-L, Sandman (Character), Nathaniel Adam, Christopher Smith | Peacemaker, Jared Stevens, Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz, Doomsday (Superman), Ultra-Humanite, Amanda Waller, Ted Kord, Michael Carter (DCU), Peter Cannon, Sonia Sato, Sparkington Northrup, Yolanda Montez, Lyta Trevor-Hall, Koriand'r (DCU), Wesley Dodds, Jim Corrigan, Mar Novu | The Monitor, The Childminder, Matthew Tyler, Courtney Whitmore, Diana (Wonder Woman), Iris West II, Olivia Queen | Oliver Queen's Daughter, Avia | Scott Free and Big Barda's Daughter, Jennifer Pierce, Mar'i Grayson, Helena Wayne Relationships: Helena Wayne & Original Character(s), Kara Zor-L & John Constantine, Dick Grayson/Koriand'r, Mary Batson | Mary Bromfield & Freddy Freeman, Dinah Lance/Oliver Queen, Jennifer-Lynn Hayden/Kyle Rayner, Selina Kyle/Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Pre-Crisis, Post-Crisis (DCU), Earth-2 (DCU), Earth-1 (DCU), Justice Society of America (DCU), Mentioned Teen Titans (DCU), What If? (Marvel Comics), Elseworlds, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes, Alternate Universe - 1940s, Earth-22 (Kingdom Come Comics), Documentation, Alternate History, Worldbuilding, Super Squad (Legacies), Superheroes via https://ift.tt/SdfeWmI

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the dark knight #the caped crusader #gotham #dcu #dc #ao3 #ao3feed

[why-i-love-comics]

Superboy #64 - "The Rebel Super-Dog" (1958)

written by Otto Binder art by John Sikela

#superman #clark kent #DC #vintage comics #comics

[zorilleerrant]

Guidelines for requesting a fic from me (this doesn't include nearly all the fandoms I'm comfortable working in and I'll update it as people ask me about other fandoms):

Batman and Batfam

I'll write for anyone (and I do) but of the characters people are less likely to ask me about, my favorites:

Terry McGinnis

Bao Pham

Cass Cain

Claire Clover

Luke Fox

My favorite minor characters:

Maps Mizoguchi

Diego Perez and the Bat Pack

Victoria October

Deb Donovan

Grace O'Halloran

Blade Sommer

Flamingo

Mara Al Ghul

Van Wayne

Lance Bruner

Helena Kyle (Huntress)

Kyle Selinas_450

Li'l Kitten

Evan Blake (Wolfspider)

White Mercy

My favorite ships to write/chat about:

Cass Cain/Xanthe Zhou

Dick Grayson/Garth(/Donna Troy)

Dick Grayson/Jimmy Olsen

Dick Grayson/David Sikela

Ric Grayson/Bea Bennett

Tim Drake/Bernard Dowd

Bruce Wayne/Lex Luthor

Bruce Wayne/Khoa Khan

Bruce Wayne/Black Adam

Babs Gordon/Helena Kyle

Mary Hamilton/Poison Ivy

Diego Perez/Merissa Cooper/Lucas LaPorte

Blade Sommer/Max Gibson

Cass Cain/Steph Brown

Tim Drake/Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong

Steph Brown/Kyle Mizoguchi

My favorite gen relationships:

Bruce Wayne & any of his kids

Alfred Pennyworth & Bruce Wayne

Van Wayne & Kate Kane

Beth Kane & Kate Kane (& Mary Hamilton)

Dick Grayson & Barbara Gordon

Dick Grayson & Damian Wayne

Dick Grayson & (Will) Grayson

Dick Grayson & Lance Bruner

Dick Grayson & Zitka

Cass Cain & Steph Brown & Tim Drake

Damian Wayne & Jon-el Kent

Damian Wayne & Mara Al Ghul

Terry McGinnis & Max Gibson

Jason Todd & Terry McGinnis

Cass Cain & Lady Shiva (only wooby sorry)

Maps Mizoguchi & Kyle Mizoguchi

Cass Cain & Mr. Dhaliwal

Diego Perez & Merissa Cooper & Lucas LaPorte

Harley Quinn & Eddie Nygma

Harley Quinn & Amanda Waller

Bruce Wayne & Oliver Queen

Jason Todd & Tyler

Tim Drake & Detective Williams

Cass Cain & Xanthe Zhou

Poison Ivy & White Mercy (& whoever Ivy is dating)

Dick Grayson & Vic Stone & Gar Logan & Raven Roth & Starfire

Dick Grayson & Waylon Jones

any and all pets or animal sidekicks

Other Mainline DC

Favorite characters:

Marcus Shugel-Shen

Xanthe Zhou

Booster Gold

Gary Green

Malik White

Peacemaker

Artemis Crock

Amanda Waller

Favorite ships:

Laura Shugel-Shen/Winston Shugel-Shen

M. Mallah/The Brain

Booster Gold/Ted Kord

Skeets/Buggles

Gary Green/Casey MCU

Captain Cold/Heatwave

Vic Stone/Gar Logan

Zari Tazari

Felicity Smoak/Chloe Sullivan

Favorite gen relationships:

Marcus Shugel-Shen & his parents

Marcus Shugel-Shen & the Ultra-Humanite

Marcus Shugel-Shen & Billy Batson

The Legends Crew

Xanthe Zhou & John Constantine

Black Adam & Malik White

Uncle Leek & Lay-lay

Peacemaker & Adebayo

Peacemaker & Red Bee

Artemis Crock & her parents

Vixen & Bumblebee (& Beast Boy)

Clarion & Teekl

Non-Mainline DC

Favorite characters:

John Constantine

Virgil Hawkins

Tim Hunter

Lainie Belloc

Death of the Endless

Favorite ships:

Virgil Hawkins/Richie Foley

Lainie Belloc/Mona Doyle

Lucifer/Maze

Favorite gen relationships

John Constantine & his family

John Constantine & Chas Chandler

John Constantine & Tim Hunter

Lucifer & Lainie Belloc

Lainie Belloc & Cal

Death & any character who canonically died

Other Fandoms I'm Thinking About Right Now

Murderbot Diaries

Only Murders in the Building

Avenue 5

Cookie Run: Kingdom

my original stuff but I don't know if you can follow that

I'm open to pretty much anything, but I'll let you know if you hit on a NoTP or a squick or something, or if I don't know the fandom. This list will change as I think of different things or my interests change, but you're still welcome to ask me about any of it. Or anything else I've written about. Or haven't written about.

Lately I've been writing 1-2k in response to ideas usually. I'm trying to get myself to write drabbles and flashes but it's not working so likely if you ask you'll get something fairly long.

Anyone's welcome to ask for a fic even if we've never interacted before. Both specific and general prompts are welcome, and I like writing Gen content of all kinds as well as ship content, character studies, and worldbuilding.

You're also welcome to just ask me questions about my fandoms (or my original fiction).

#look i said something #you're welcome to reblog this if you want but it's mostly for blog maintenance I'm going to link it to my pinned post #long post

[cantsayidont]

January-February 1950. Since the 1978 SUPERMAN movie with Christopher Reeve, Jonathan and Martha Kent have generally been depicted as farmers, but in the pre-Crisis comics, they actually sold the farm before Clark Kent entered high school and bought a general store in Smallville, where Clark often helped out as a clerk or stock boy. In this story from SUPERBOY #6, Clark leaves school for a few days to run the store after Jonathan Kent twists his ankle.

The Superboy strip was careful to note that the Kents HAD been farmers at the time they found Kal-El's rocket ship, to avoid contradicting past accounts of Superman's origin. However, moving the Kents into town made more sense for the Superboy strip, since it made it easier to introduce supporting characters from Smallville (for instance, Lana Lang first appeared in SUPERBOY #10). Also, running the store was somewhat less strenuous than farming for the Kents, who were generally depicted as relatively spry but obviously elderly, looking more like teenage Clark's grandparents than his parents.

So, why have modern stories again focused on the Kents as farmers? The salt-of-the-earth family farmer remains an important piece of American cultural mythology with powerful political connotations despite its very limited relevance to the realities of modern agribusiness. Modern Superman media, particularly the live-action movies, tends to play this to the hilt, elevating Jonathan Kent the hardworking farmer to a kind of saintly figure of plainspoken middle-American values. This is also a useful prop for the nativist leanings of the post-Crisis comics, which seek to affirm Superman's bona fides as a true-blue, native-born American champion.

Indeed, John Byrne's 1986 MAN OF STEEL miniseries is explicit in its representation of farming as an exemplar of moral virtue. In explaining to Lara why he intends to send Kal-El to Earth, Jor-El says he has selected Earth because it resembles Krypton in its prelapsarian Golden Age past, possessing "a fullness of life we have denied ourselves...but which I shall give back to our son!" He then displays this image:

This is a pretty blatantly fascist argument: As Jor-El explains, escaping from the poison of modern Krypton to embrace the earthy traditional values from which Lara recoils will make their son a "supreme being," "almost a god." Note also that Lara, who unlike Jor-El has never questioned Kryptonian cultural mores, reacts in a way the reader is expected to see as sinister: suggesting that their son will use his power to become a tyrant and impose "proper Kryptonian ways" (which Byrne presents, both here and in the subsequent WORLD OF KRYPTON, as corrupt, inhuman, and sterile) on the people of Earth. Jor-El doesn't seek to argue the point, since his plan will in effect inoculate Kal-El against the corrupting moral influence of his mother and his native culture by delivering him from the doomed decadence of Krypton into the care of simple, decent Midwestern farmers like the one in the image he showed Lara previously, to become a champion of American populism.

It's not subtle, and it's quite unsavory, for all the admittedly slick prettiness of Byrne's storytelling.

#comics #superboy #john sikela #the writer of the superboy story is unknown #clark kent #jonathan kent #martha kent #smallville #man of steel #john byrne #dick giordano #i can appreciate the desire of the post-crisis reboot #to dispel the lingering air of stale hokiness #that afflicted the superman books in the later julie schwartz years #but i find byrne's conception of superman ideologically objectionable #and frequently antagonistic

[jedivoodoochile]

Classic Comic - WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #15,

1944) - Superman/Batman team-up cover.. Jerry Robinson, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby and John Sikela art. Always loved this cover.

#batman #superman #baseball

[onlylonelylatino]

Superman by Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy and John Sikela

#superman #joe shuster #paul cassidy #john sikela #dc comics #modern age

[browsethestacks]

Vintage Comic - Action Comics #097

Pencils: Joe Shuster Inks: John Sikela DC (June1946)

#Vintage #Art #Illustration #Design #Comics #DC #DC Comics #Action Comics #Superman #Hocus And Pocus #Joe Shuster #John Sikela #1946 #1940s #40s

[eliah]

#adventure comics #236 #superboy #dc comics #1957 #jerry coleman #john sikela #clark kent #kal-el