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!
Posted by MLLASH on :
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!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Interestingly, Superman's use of super-matter-eating powers predates heat vision, super-breath, and even flight!
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
This reminds me of when Superboy and Mon-El ate an UNEARTHLY amount of Ma's pancakes. Do pancakes count as super matter eating?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
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!
Posted by Blockade Boy on :
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?
Posted by MLLASH on :
Too bad there never was a scene with Tenzil saving Supes by eating kryptonite.... YET.
Posted by Reboot on :
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.
Posted by Superboy on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Tenzil eating kryptonite.... YET.
I sincerely hope we never find out what kind of Kryptonite that'll create.
Posted by Superboy on :
No doubt, Super eating and Ma's pancakes were the ultimate source of this nifty little superpower:
Incidentally, the Legion REEEEALLY did not want someone who duplicated that particular power. At all!
And yeap, it was published like that.
[ May 24, 2008, 09:12 AM: Message edited by: Superboy ]
Posted by Malvolio on :
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.
Posted by Malvolio on :
quote:Originally posted by Superboy:
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Tenzil eating kryptonite.... YET.
I sincerely hope we never find out what kind of Kryptonite that'll create.
Brown Kryptonite?
Posted by MLLASH on :
The existence/non-existence of super-farting has long been speculated upon around here... thanks for the confirmation.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
In the early '70s when all the Kryptonite on Earth was turned to iron, didn't Superman eat a chunk to taunt a villain?
Posted by Malvolio on :
I think he bit into it and then spit it out. His teeth were strong enough to bite into it, but his stomach would not be able to digest it.
Posted by Silver Age Lad on :
quote: 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?
You have just worked out how the Legion defeat the Trapper, Prime and the LSV. Who needs Superman!
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
Damn you all! Now i have in my head a vision of poor metropolis after Superman has a particularly strong meal at a mexican restaurant.
Super breath his buttocks!
May you all spend time with the devils dozen!
Posted by Korbal on :
On a similar note of obscure Legion tangents to the Golden Age of DC, Lambert, the murder victim of the very first Batman story in Dectective Comics #27 in 1939, was referred to as a "Chemical King."
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I used that as a question in Legion Trivia awhile back!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'm currently listening to an episode of the Superman Radio Show where this dude invents a machine that allows him to listen to sound from the past! (For example, they tune in and listen to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address!).
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