Topic: Action Comics #27-- The Secret Origin of Matter-Eater Lad?
Eryk Davis Ester
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In this issue, Superman fights an evil couple who run an orphanage/sweat shop. Anyway, the guy tries to fight him by taking after him with a hot poker, which Superman promptly eats, complaining that he usually likes his meals hotter than that! Later the guy tries to hit Superman with an anvil, which he stops with his teeth.
I suspect that twenty years later Jerry Siegel remembered how cool this scene was when he created Matter-Eater Lad!
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Thank Space that super-matter-eating were strictly a Golden-Age Superman power, else poor Tenzil would have been rejected for duplicating a previously-existing Legionnares' power!
Eryk Davis Ester
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Interestingly, Superman's use of super-matter-eating powers predates heat vision, super-breath, and even flight!
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Eryk Davis Ester
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The three aspects of super-eating powers:
1) Ability to eat anything 2) Ability to eat enormous quantities 3) Ability to eat at tremendous speed
So Supers and Mon-El may very well have been displaying super-eating powers!
It's a good thing that Tenzil was able to eat kryptonite, lead, and inertron, or else his powers just might have been redundant!
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quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Interestingly, Superman's use of super-matter-eating powers predates heat vision, super-breath, and even flight!
In college a good buddy of mine was a farm-boy. As I was from out of state, he would invite me home some weekends for a bit of family life. After a few of his Ma's homecooked, I could see easily how an lonely alien boy could develop super eating powers on a farm.
Like Star Boy when he lost his S-Boy-like powers, Supes would probably be able to fall back on his super eating should he fall victim to gold-k.
Did they ever resolve how ME Lad was cured of madness? Seems like all that happened off panel. Those alien energies had to have gone somewhere?
From: East Toledo | Registered: Jul 2003
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Such a scene would be pretty pointless, yes? All it would do would be to make MEL k-radioactive, not save Supes. Sitting on it would be marginally more effective.
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quote:Originally posted by Sketch Lad: This reminds me of when Superboy and Mon-El ate an UNEARTHLY amount of Ma's pancakes. Do pancakes count as super matter eating?
That entirely depends on who cooked the pancakes.
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From: Freeville, NY | Registered: Nov 2003
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In the early '70s when all the Kryptonite on Earth was turned to iron, didn't Superman eat a chunk to taunt a villain?
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