# Interesting Superman Story - Any Superman stories weirder than this one? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522 "2005-10-16T23:24:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/1 "2005-10-16T23:24:12Z")
I never realized ths one even existed. [“The Amazing Story of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue”](http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/pre-crisis-reviews/pre-crisis-mmrs-intro.php?topic=c-review-pc-sup162) Any Superman stories weirder than this one? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/2 "2005-10-16T23:45:07Z")
Oooh, there’s plenty. That one’s hardly worse than the more recent Superman Red/Blue. Pretty much any story involving Red Kryptonite, Jimmy with Superpowers, Bizarro, Mr Mxptlkl, or…well, there’s a **lot** of really frigging weird Superman stories… ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/3 "2005-10-16T23:46:37Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Oooh, there’s plenty. > > That one’s hardly worse than the more recent Superman Red/Blue. > > Pretty much any story involving Red Kryptonite, Jimmy with Superpowers, Bizarro, Mr Mxptlkl, or…well, there’s a **lot** of really frigging weird Superman stories… So what’s the strangest one you’ve ever read? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/4 "2005-10-17T00:05:55Z")
Tough one. Probably the killer costume from Action 383 and 384. A costume, previously worn by an alien criminal, and the uniform of the alien cop who died at the same time as he end up on Earth…the criminal’s costume destroys anyone who wears it until it finds a person evil enough to match its old owner (whose spirit possesses it)… ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/5 "2005-10-17T00:21:13Z")
My personal vote for strangest (or stupidest) was when we found out that Kal-El was using subliminal super-hypnotism on the world through his glasses to keep anyone from recognising him in his “Clark Kent” persona. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/6 "2005-10-17T00:22:16Z")
Hey! I remember owning that issue! And even as a first-grader, I doubted that everyone would manage to be nice to everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/7 "2005-10-17T00:27:12Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I never realized ths one even existed. > > [“The Amazing Story of Superman-Red and Superman-Blue”](http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/pre-crisis-reviews/pre-crisis-mmrs-intro.php?topic=c-review-pc-sup162) > > Any Superman stories weirder than this one? If you want to read the story instead of just reading about the story, go here [http://superman.ws/tales2/redblue/](http://superman.ws/tales2/redblue/) ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/8 "2005-10-17T00:43:56Z")
The Alien Hillbilly Jimmy Olsen? I Am Curious… Black? Oh, there are an infinite amount of really weird stories. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/9 "2005-10-17T00:45:27Z")
[Well, we have a new winner for the goofiest Superman story I’ve ever read](http://superman.ws/tales2/redsun/?page=0)… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/10 "2005-10-17T01:23:46Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > The Alien Hillbilly Jimmy Olsen? How about the [multiple stories involving Jimmy’s interest in cross-dressing](http://www.tgfa.org/comics/jimmy_olsen/jimmy_olsen.htm) No, wait, how about his adventures as Turtle Boy. No, hold on. How about Elastic Lad. No, wait, how about… ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/11 "2005-10-17T01:30:52Z")
[How about Superman’s plan to squash a Pat Boone song?](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html) I love that site, plenty of hilarious covers. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/12 "2005-10-17T01:59:12Z")
Just off the top of my head, there’s the one where Superman loses his powers but gains the power to make a more-powerful miniature version of himself fly out his fingertips. That’s not all THAT weird. What _is_ weird is the strange “I’m impotent and this miniature duplicate of me is stealing my life!” theme running through Superman’s head. If you allow Superboy, there’s the (Earth-B\*) story where, floating among the asteroid belt are Jor-El and Laura…alive. Seems Jor-El had _another_ experimental rocketship lying around, but it was slower than light or some-such and they were in suspended animation. Anyway, it _also_ turned out that they’d contracted Kryptonite poisoning and if he revived them, they’d die an agonzing death. So he decides to just leave them there, rather than beaming them into the Phantom Zone with Mon-El where they could wait for a cure and still be around. There’s also the Superboy story where a Kryptonian Teaching Robot (who has a head that looks like a combination of a cash-register and an olde time radio) hypnotizes some girl into having sex with young Clark. It was mostly on panel and blatent—the girl tells Clark "I know you’re Superboy, but I don’t care. I love you whoever you are and lip-locks him (they’re in her bedroom, IIRC) and then the lights go out. Next panel, Ma Kent “Hmmm. Clark’s bed is still made. He must have been out all night on a long patrol.” Next panel, Clark walking home, whistling, with a…smile (you know the “I just got lucky” smile) and his sweater over his shoulder. I read somewhere the writer(s?) saying “We just turned that scene in as a joke! We didn’t think they’d actually publish it!” Or the one where, in ~1962, Mort Weisinger (a bigwig and an insider in the Democrat party at the time) publishes the first…story?..the first _anything_ about Jack Kennedy and Marylin Monroe: He has Bizarro-Superman and Bizarro-Lois dress up like them and dance together. Given how tightly the White House tried to keep that secret, it’s pretty surprising. \*Earth-B. Where all the stories too dumb to exist or too damaging to continuity were said to be set. The “B” stands for Bob “Continuity? Characterization? What dat?” Haney. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/13 "2005-10-17T03:16:23Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [How about Superman’s plan to squash a Pat Boone song?](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html) I love that site, plenty of hilarious covers. [WTF?](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/15.html) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/14 "2005-10-17T03:43:38Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [WTF?](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/15.html) You gotta admit, he’s got a point! ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/15 "2005-10-17T04:20:00Z")
A weird but real Superman history: > **[Stetson Kennedy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Kennedy)** > > William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist and human rights activist. One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world. His actions led to the 1947 revocation by the state of Georgia of the Klan's national corporate charter. Kennedy wrote or co-wrote ten books. > William Stetson Kennedy,... > [@](#): > > After WWII Kennedy infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and other racist/terrorist groups, and he subsequently authored a number of books dealing with human rights, including The Klan Unmasked, Southern Exposure, Jim Crow Guide, and After Appomattox: How the South Won the War, some of which have been widely translated into foreign languages. While undercover in the Klan, he also provided information – including secret codewords and details of Klan rituals – to the writers of the Superman radio program. The result was a series of four episodes in which Superman took on the Klan. Kennedy intended to strip away the Klan’s mystique, and the trivialization of the Klan’s rituals and codewords likely had a negative impact on Klan recruiting and membership. In the book _Freakonomics_, the author reports that kids of klan members stopped playing cops and robbers and then played Superman vs the Klan! Members stopped going to meetings because they were so ashamed! It was reported that Superman stopped the growth of the Klan. Now that was power! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/16 "2005-10-17T04:45:42Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > A weird but real Superman history: > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson\_Kennedy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson_Kennedy) > In the book _Freakonomics_, the author reports that kids of klan members stopped playing cops and robbers and then played Superman vs the Klan! Members stopped going to meetings because they were so ashamed! It was reported that Superman stopped the growth of the Klan. Now that was power! Any sources for the text of that radio program? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/17 "2005-10-17T04:56:17Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Any sources for the text of that radio program? [Here’s a little bit about it - fascinating! (Real audio) RADIO show](http://www.thislife.org/ra/285.ram) > [@](#): > > March 31, 2005: Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan > “This American Life” is a radio program where a theme is discussed each week and stories gathered together on that theme. Last week the show was all about “Know Your Enemy”, and featured an introduction story on a detective who went undercover in the Ku Klux Klan, and used the Superman radio show to demoralize members of the KKK. > You can listen to this particular “This American Life” radio episode as RealAudio file. > > Be patient as the actual first mention of Superman doesn’t happen till about 3 and a half minutes into the program, but the lead up to that mention is well worth listening to. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/18 "2005-10-17T05:26:08Z")
> [@astro](#): > > [WTF?](http://www.superdickery.com/dick/15.html) That might be the best caption ever. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/19 "2005-10-17T06:00:58Z")
How about [Saga of the Super-Sons](http://superman.ws/super-sons/saga/), about the adult kids of Superman and Batman trying to make their way in the world? Check out those crazy sideburns on Supes junior. Freaky, man. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522/20 "2005-10-17T13:33:38Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Hey! I remember owning that issue! And even as a first-grader, I doubted that everyone would manage to be nice to everyone else. What a minute…when you people were talking about red and blue SUperman, I was thinking of something COMPLETLY different. Wasn’t there another red and blue superman at some point in the mid-90’s? A couple years or maybe less (or more) after SUperman died? 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-superman-story-any-superman-stories-weirder-than-this-one/326522.md?page=2)