Superman 709 pg 15 - JP Mayer and Eddy Barrows

Artists: Eddy Barrows (Penciller) , JP Mayer (Inker)

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Title:	Superman 709 pg 15 - JP Mayer and Eddy Barrows
Artist:	Eddy Barrows (Penciller)
Artist:	JP Mayer (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	516
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Added to Site:	10/30/2011
Comic Art Archive:	Superman Issue: 709 Page: 15 View

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In a recent issue of superman, it's revealed that Lex Luthor was reprimanded as a child for stealing 40 cakes. What you may not know is that the supervillain has had a long, terrible history of pastry larceny. In this issue we see via flashback, a juvenile delinquent Lex Luthor who absconded with 40 cakes from a school bake sale. This was no mere throwaway line but a reference to a weird 1970s DC Comics children's book that graduated to internet meme.

1978's Super Dictionary featured bizarre prose and illustrations defining basic words and depicting DC superheroes acting like total lunatics. The book's most infamous moment was its nigh poetic definition of "forty," which starred Lex Luthor committing crimes against shortbread and buttercream:

When no one was looking, Lex Luthor took forty cakes.
He took 40 cakes.
That's as many as four tens.
And that's terrible.

Superman page by JP Mayer and Eddy Barrows. 11" x 17", original Mayer inks over Barrows blueline pencils on cardstock. This piece is from superman issue 709 page 15

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