Friday, January 10, 2014

All the news that fits in microprint

Well, the pundits have been telling us this for the past decade, and it must be true: print is dead. How do we know? We know it from that arbiter of truth and that chronicle of life in the thirtieth-century, the comic book adventures of The Legion of Super-Heroes!

Yes, the Legion will tell us that print...like this..is dead, dead, dead...


Because, in the thirtieth century...


Panel from the Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Secret of the Mystery Legionnaire!" in Adventure Comics #305 (February 1963), script by Jerry Siegel, pencils and inks by John Forte, letters by Joe Letterese

...we'll all be reading this.


Honestly, it makes a nice change from the mid-2700s when we were all reading the Daily Planet on this:


Well, the benefit is that it did put to rest all those scurrilous accusations that the Daily Planet was nothing more than a mouthpiece for Six Flags Over Metropolis.


Just remember: the news media in the year 2963 may not be all that much more accurate than it is in 2014. DARN THESE LIBERAL-LEANING THOUGHT WAVES


Just remember that microfilm can never adequately express the outrage and sensation of the Daily Planet's greatest headline of all time:


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3 comments:

  1. SallyP1/11/2014 9:05 AM

    Oh those try-outs for the Legion! I've always wondered if Cosmic Boy was a Trump fan.

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  2. timber-munki1/11/2014 2:19 PM

    When was the comic that the 'Kennedy re-elected' panel publishd? I would have assumed DC would have put it in an actual election year, in which casse surely it a bit insensitive to put it mildly...

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  3. Bully1/11/2014 2:21 PM

    T-M: it's from the same comic as above, Adventure, cover-dated February 1963, which means it was published in late 1962.

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