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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHappy 80th 🎂 Kal-El aka Superman aka Clark Kent!
Published on April 18, 1938 (cover-dated June), by National Allied Publications, a corporate predecessor of DC Comics, it is considered the first true superhero comic; and though today Action Comics is a monthly title devoted to Superman, it began, like many early comics, as an anthology.
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Happy 80th 🎂 Kal-El aka Superman aka Clark Kent! (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Apr 2018
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,642 posts)1. His 80th?
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)2. Oh tha-anks.
mahatmakanejeeves
(58,345 posts)3. Yes. It saw it had made the notable anniversaries list at Wikipedia.
As well it ought to have done. One of the over-the-air networks used to air the TV shows from the '50s, both the black-and-white and the color ones. I haven't seen them in a while.
Well, let's link to the intros. The black and white intro had a Southern Pacific Daylight for the powerful locomotive:
By 1957, the powerful locomotive was a Southern Pacific EMD E7:
Thanks for the thread.
mahatmakanejeeves
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