[Superman Fan Club] PRESENTS: The Issue a Week of Superman Silver and Bronze Age Challenge of the Superfans WEEK 3!!!
Welcome to Week 3 of a very special challenge / contest for any who are brave and bold enough to join us in reading one single issue a week from the current digitized DC Universe Infinite collection of Silver and Bronze Age Superman and Family comics for 52 weeks! Wait, 52, 52…where have I run into that number before?
ADVENTURE COMICS (1938-) #383Adventure Comics (1938-) #383 July 1969
Thrown into a parallel Earth, Supergirl witnesses her friends attending her funeral (Wait, shouldn’t this have been the Holiday issue?)….oh, ma’am, you don’t know the HALF of it….
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Funny, I just read this a couple of weeks ago. the death of Supergirl was interesting! Especially the concept of positive and negative beings and what happens upon death, I’ve never heard that particular description before. As to the back up the transference of damage from Tony to Kara was an interesting twist on the loss of a power and someone gaining one.
For what we still have to read for Silver / Bronze Age, it was a toss up this week between three of the Supergirl series, this one won because it’s still technically Silver Age. Trippy story, eh?
The Beatles are about to make history by breaking up a few months after this issue was printed.
A child has a speck of dust in her eye? This is a job for… Supergirl!?!
By 1969, Supergirl is aware of enough shenanagans from the Silver Age to suspect this is a prank.
It’s been a while since I read this, so I couldn’t remember what the twist was.
A twist on the old alternate Earth tale from Robert Kanigher. The pencils by Win Mortimer are upgraded by the inking of the great Murphy Anderson.
SUPERGIRL’S DAY OF DANGER!
An experiment to make people invulnerable, no disease, bulletproof police (and soldiers), sure what could go wrong?
It’s the old Corsican Brothers routine (or Tomax and Xamot if you’re a certain age), but it only goes one way. A solid gimmick for this sort of story. Nice to see Tony didn’t let his invulnerability go to his head.
We need more evil racketeers with deadly mazes in abandoned factories in comics these days.
Good story from E Nelson Bridwell and Kurt Schaffenberger.
LETTERS PAGE
One reader wonders why they didn’t rename the title from Adventure Comics to Supergirl. Another is mad that the Legion has been kicked out of their home. The Legion has moved over to the occasional backup feature in Action Comics. The cover goes from a larger Adventure sign to a larger Supergirl sign in about a year.
Wow, the Flying Newsroom shrunk…maybe it fell in the water too…
This whole notion of “negative people” "dead people being alive in the other universe" etc reminded me of …something while I read this, and maybe it was that equally inexplicable plotline last year for the CW The Flash lol…
I do love me some crazy Streaky action though, no explanation needed for this “action” sequence:
Who in their right mind would do that is my first reaction…however, I do recall now some buddies of mine earning cash at the nearby hospital when I was at Eastern Baptist Seminar in Philadelphia (City Line and Lancaster Ave) letting them experiment on them.
Yes, I did read both stories. As previously noted, a bit far-fetched (they ARE about a woman who can fly and is invulnerable, after all), but still entertaining. And I very much liked the little twist in the first story which made it a bit more than most parallel universe stories (which I’m often a sucker for anyway).
Thanks! It’s been a busy month!!! Trying to keep my head above water at work and then I’m fried by the end of the day! If everyone could just take time off for the holidays and stop bothering me…that’d be great. I’m sure it will all settle back down to normal soon…
Trying to keep my head above water at work and then I’m fried by the end of the day! If everyone could just take time off for the holidays and stop bothering me…that’d be great. 
I’m sure it will all settle back down to normal soon… 
