Amon Wrote:Good ol' Pre-Crisis Superman. Aside from being absurdly powerful (almost God-like), he could really be a jerk, too.
Only on the covers! In the actual stories he was either totally devoid of the jerkiness depicted on the cover, or he turned out to have some kind of noble reason for acting like a jerk, which was all explained in the end.
Let's face it: those covers were designed as a ploy to make 12-year-old kids gasp and plunk down $.10 or $.12 at a time when that was real money. Anyone older than that knew the covers were blatantly misleading, and this was long before the days when the comic market shifted to the college crowd and collectors.
Brett