The Ole Swimming Hole

I found this in a Superboy story ("Superboy's Best Friend") originally published in Superboy 77 (December 1959) and reprinted in Adventure 319 (April 1964). The rest of the story is pretty decent, but I found these panels to be particularly poignant when seen through the eyes of a closeted gay reader of the time.

When the story was published I was one year old, and I was not yet six when it was reprinted. I didn't encounter it until I started collecting back issues in my 20s, with my gay identity well-established. I wonder if it spoke to any gay boys a handful of years older than me?

Don't you just want to hold Clark and comfort him?

Incidentally, I've seen a bunch of gay porn that started this way. In an alternate universe....

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Bigger on the Inside

Looking over early Legion comics, I realized something.

Beginning with the first Legion story in Adventure 247 (April 1958)—and certainly by the start of the Legion's first continuous run in Adventure 300 (September 1962)—the Legion's "Super-Hero Club House" was inexplicably bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.

Doctor Who premiered in November 1963.

I'm just sayin'....

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Welcome Back

I'm Get-a-Life Boy. I once had a wonderful site devoted to the Legion of Super-Heroes. Then came an event that I'll call Crisis in Drupal-6. In that event, my site was mortally injured.

Now it's back. Two months, 2,800 characters, 1,200 individual story/comic listings, spreadsheet miracles. Most of the data from the previous site is restored.

A note of caution. Data recovery is, as they say, a bitch goddess. Mistakes abound. I'll be dealing with the most egregious errors over the next few weeks. After that, I'll install a feature that will allow readers to alert me to errors. Until then...patience, please.

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I did not see any new LSH content in DC comics this week.

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