1 - Posted on 7/6/2020

This is a wonderfully funny page!  I love how Superman attempts to shine a positive light on the situation by pointing out that at least he's not a gorilla.  I'm gonna use that one when I feel I'm having a really bad day. (Plus now I have to read the previous pages to see Superman as a gorilla).  And yeah, keeping his front hair curl is just classic.  

Posted on 7/6/2020

Oh, it's really funny and worth a read! Soon you'll see another page with Clark trying to get a date with Lois, and the dialogue, by Jerry Ordway of all people, is HILARIOUS. She just blows him off in the RUDEST way possible.

1 - Posted on 7/6/2020

Ummm....yeah....mmmm...head.... Hahahaha!!!

Awesome page!!!

1 - Posted on 7/6/2020

You are not supposed to snort the Viagra!

1 - Posted on 7/6/2020

Hahahahaha! Great page and love the pig tail hair do :)

1 - Posted on 7/6/2020

This is grest but an homage not to Flash but to an action comics story from I think 1960 with him turning into a future superman - it also ran as a daily Superman comic strip by Curt Swan I had art once from the comic strip.

Posted on 7/7/2020

You know, I'm not even familiar with that issue of Action Comics. Though when I read your comment, I naturally realized that Kesel certainly could've gotten his inspiration from either issue. So I decided to get in touch with him today to ask him. Here is his response....

"The Big Head was, as you originally surmised, a tip of the very-large-hat to Flash #177. Mike Carlin and I both thought that was a hilarious image, and I had once drawn a small image of a Big-Headed Superman on a piece of vellum and taped it into one of the corner UPC boxes on some cover I inked for him (can’t for the life of me remember which one now; not a Superman cover, I don’t think). So I couldn’t resist actually putting it into one of the stories when the opportunity presented itself! Wasn’t aware of the 1959 Action issue until you showed it to me just now."

1 - Posted on 7/7/2020

Interesting as it is a classic issue taht has been reprinted ocne or twice! I figure the Superman issue probably inspired the Flash cover. Back i nthe 1950's the covers were often drawn before the stories were written though with Superman if they were redoing a comic strip story - it was just a case of rewriting it to fit the comic format. There was a alot o give and take between the comic strip and the comic book- sometiems the story ran first in one and sometimes the other- also in the mid 50's there was a similar give and take with the TV show.

1 - Posted on 7/9/2020

Wacky wonderful comic fun - that's what we read this stuff for, right?!  Definitely a fun page you can't help smiling at when looking at it.  Love how Grummett channels the Silver Age with this.  Congrats, man!