Favourite cake go!

So Superman was kissing another woman and Lois did not spontaneously developed long-range time-travelling Superman-tracking vision to generate a 'But Lois, I can explain...' style farce? Missed opportunity. With a bit more planning, Lois could have been Mrs. Kono, just to make Supes jealous.

To be fair, whenever cake is promised, it usually is a lie..

I love Clark's face while Raja is crying, he looks so done with her shit lol

I really enjoy the enthusiasm that Sasha puts in to reviewing these weird tales dredged up from the depths of the DC Universe. This channel has given me a new perspective on the Silver Age and its wonky treasures.

The 'sobbing Rija" voice deserves an Oscar. Live long and prosper.

"You can only have cake, not the whole bakery" cracked me up.

Those fan letters were more entertaining than the main story😂

There is a bit of fridge horror where Kond may have only forgiven her because his new Superman body was affected by the Siren effect.

I love that you cover "Letters to the Editor." It is a fantastic time capsule!

"Kond! KOOOOOOONNNNNDDDD!!!" Also, am I the only one that wants Sasha to start a career as a voice actor?

I have not looked at the Curt Swan / Murphy Anderson era of superman for a long long time. I’m really impressed at how the figures have a three-dimensional weight. And the storytelling/camera angles are really good.

Danny Ketch Retrospective 👀👀

You almost did get "Clark Kent Newscaster" that very same year. Earlier in 1971 ( Superman 233-237) was the 'Sand Superman' storyline, where Superman's duplicate the The Quarmer (who was made out of sand) steals his powers, leaving Clark feeling like a failure and the public turning on him ( leading to the infamous cover where he says " I'm through with you ingrates.") It looks like he'll just be Clark Kent newscaster, when Diana Prince (who was going through her own depowered period at the time) shows up to give him some hope.

The story itself is bland but the art work (especially the cover) is fantastic. Hope you cover more bronze age Superman stories. Nice Goku shirt.

So the mysterious cover lady isn’t ambush bug in a wig?

A cover homage by the same artist definitely counts as a homage! I feel like Kevin Maguire could wallpaper his house with all the homages he has done of his own Justice League #1 cover.

OK. OK. OK. Got to stop it at 5:29 to say, by far the best read along I've seen you do.

I love those old letter because it really shows that fans never change no matter the time. We’re the same over the decades

Glados: "You Will Be Baked, And Then There Will Be Cake"

You missed the Diana Muldaur connection back to DC. She was the voice of Dr. Leslie Thompkins on Batman TAS. Full circle.

These stories were obviously written for younger readers which signified the times. This was my favorite era and back for my taste. I grew up with Curt Swan as my Superman artist and consider him to be the standard.

6:03 one simple trick to get around your no killing policy! Batmans hate him!

That cover was more ... pancake than cake.

Every video, I wonder how Sasha will shoe-horn in a Hal Jordan reference and this one did not disappoint!

A favorite story of mine. The comparisons to Trek make sense. (You could also compare it to the Forbidden Planet and its Monster of the Id.) Bonus points for bringing in images of the lovely Diana Muldaur.

Sasha really went for it in the emotional reading

I love that Star Trek completely diverted the video for a good solid minute, then pops back in a few times for good measure. 😆🖖🏾

“Everything you think you know about the cake in this issue is a lie.”

I hope you cover the Cary Bates JLA/JSA 'Crisis' story he wrote where the main villain is . . . Cary Bates! This was my 1st introduction into that type of meta-fiction, before I discovered Kurt Vonnegut. He even gives himself a cape and costume, but no mask and keeps his glasses!! Also, I REALLY wanted to see what that Dragonball Z tee-shirt looked like, Thanks for showing it at the end!!

I had this story in a digest. It didn't reproduce the cover, but this video was a trip back to my childhood.

"Monsters on the planet are manifestations of Rija's mind." Sounds like the movie Forbidden Planet from 1956.

I count this in a bubble, a misadventure in the life of Superman as he is passing through. He was drained by never ending turmoil's a love spat gave him a moment of clarity; with a major reward a few false quick fixes that won't last on Earth. The metaphor on cakes and bakery is cool.

Love your videos. Always wondered about this issue of Superman. It invariably comes up every time Neal Adams covers come up in discussions.

I haven't read comics in 35 years but I love your channel and frequently have read issues you talk about. 😅

There is no kryptonite more powerful than cheesecake.

Portal references, they're never untimely.

@6minutes30seconds. And the Oscar goes to…. Seriously, that was some good acting! Good stuff. Keep it up!

And she knows Star Trek TOS off the top of her head. I am nominating Sasha for Queen of Nerds. I assume there will be no objections?

Of course Cary Bates wrote this.

Honestly if Trollface can return, the cake is a lie is totally valid to bring back.

I've listened to casually comics to the point where whenever I come across cheesy dialogue, I hear your voice.

Superman going full GlaDos is something not on my 2023 Bingo card...

I bought that Goku t-shirt with an outfit. Then, my son wanted one. It turns out that he wanted it as a pajama top to compliment his Goku (symbols) sleep pants. We would later add house shoes, and he wears all of this as much as he possibly can.

Susan Bregman had a good point. We could have gotten a lot more back story on these two characters of pure intellect, but not in 12 pages, It would have had to be a full-length issue or a two-parter. And I liked the World of Krypton series, they had some interesting stories. Also, it seems kind of retro that beings of "pure intellect" hadn't overcome the problem of emotions. At least in the Star Trek episode, they had a pretty good reason for wanting to make the android bodies.

Was that an actual issue of the Superman comic you had in your hands? The way you were handling it made me gasp! Otherwise, I love your videos!

Funny thing: I remember reading somewhere about this really bizarre comic after Adams classic "Sandman" run that just returned Supes to status quo of ridiculousness. And seeing the beginning...yeah, this is it.

I want a regular Superman toon with Sasha doing all the voices!

Mark Millar interviewed Cary Bates on his KZfaq channel. It's a good watch

this actually would be interesting to return to... were they the last two of their race? If so what killed off the rest of them? If not were there others who were more inclined to "evil thoughts"? Great read through on this one.

Yeah they definitely lifted this from that Star Trek episode and probably a little from that Leslie Nielsen movie Forbidden Planet with the energy monster. P.S. I love when you read the letters about the comic book stories you cover.

The Cover is ok I guess, the story is pretty generic but I think Rija and Kond have potential for a more interesting story involving time traveling super intelligence that take humanoid form. I feel like there are interesting things you could do with space Syrin married to a clone of Superman. I don't know what that story could be but I would like to see someone tackle it. I usually love the weird and silly things form the Golden and Silver age of comics and enjoy seeing them reinterpreted or reintegrated into modern comics, provided that they don't completely ignore the original characterization. But I don't know I sometimes feel bad for the hundreds of characters who have been forgotten. Especially since in the dc universe forgotten characters become stuck in Limbo becoming shallow husks of who they used to be, which is a story I think has potential for a cosmic existential horror comic about fictional characters struggling with the fragility of their existence when it is tied directly to their popularity in a dimension (our dimension) they have no hope of truly understanding. Basically, I Imagine it being Six Characters in search of an Author if it was written by HP Lovecraft.

Your dramatic reading voice of Rija is really good! 👍

I feel like that's only a slice of cake, not even a whole one. Miles away from a bakery lol.

Speaking of romance, have you ever read any of DCs "romance" comics from the 1970s? The ones from 74-77 atleast (I've got a sister and would read ANYTHING in comic form) were over the top. You might not fall in love, but the laughter and disbelief (and maybe interest) are guaranteed.

Anytime I find a Curt Swan superman back issue in the cheap box I grab it. Don't think I own this one, hard to believe, especially with that cover. Love late silver to early bronze age Superman stories. Such a great mix of trippy cosmic stories and bits of drama.

Love your Star Trek creds. :)

So Spring Valley NY is about five minutes from a relative of mine. I'm going to have to have him go see if this Susan Bregman "broad" still lives there and give her a piece of my mind. World of Krypton rocked!

goddammit these over the top Silver Age comic stories

I wonder if any of the people who wrote the letters you read ever watch your channel and get a chance to see someone reacting to them years later.

Raja did a 'sob!' but she didn't do a '...choke!'. Lois will come along and say 'Gasp! Come along girlffriend, I've got to teach you how to cry properly!'. Actually imagine if Lois saw the Two Supermen in that panel. She'd be all 'gasp! They're both so handsome! But...which do I choose???' Did they ever do something like that as a cover? Would have been fun. Thinking of Cary Bates, I recall reading there was an issue of the Flash which revealed the truth behind Barry's Origin. In that the chemicals and the lighting had all been arranged by a group of inter dimensional imps called 'the heavenly helpers'. And that in due course he expressed a desire for everyone to forget about the story. That would make an interesting deep dive...

@4:24 I was thinking of the same episode when you started describing what the brain wanted! Great (nerdy) minds think alike 😆

This is one of the first Superman comics I read as a child. My parents mostly bought me DC comics, hence my lifetime love for the Legion of Super-heroes :-). I didn't see all of class Star Trek until it went into syndication later in the 70s, so I didn't remember similarity to "Return to Tomorrow". Would you look at doing a video about Superman story where he finds a survivor of a lost humanoid race dating back to the time of the dinosaurs?

11:20 fantastic! I spent the whole episode wishing i could see your Dragon Ball shirt.

I wish comics would still publish letters to the editor imagine the responses to the BatCat wedding or the Ric Grayson arc

I remember that cover making a Sexciest Cover List in the bygone area of Comic Book Magazine like Hero, Wizard or Comics Scene.

The thumbnail is amazing

This here is exactly why I watch this channel. Love this episode ❤

Urinal Cake, means bathrooms would smell even worse without'em.

I wasn't ready for simp brain

Thanks for media Sasha!

*Sasha: **_"It didn't go where I was expecting."_* So to speak...😉

That cover. That Cover! That COVER! That cover and Batgirl panels from the back of Detective penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Murphy Anderson were early deposits in College Boy's spank bank.

She's only MOSTLY dead.

Clark Kent: Newscaster comic FTW!

I've got to admit there was plenty of cheese with that cake.

An Animorphs reference out of nowhere, now this made my day

I don't so much care about the comic, but I was pointing my finger at the screen yelling "That's a Star Trek episode!" about a minute before you got there!

I like this look ( I like the fantastical ones aswell)! Does your kids have as much fun as you with the outfits? Icecream cake!

That guy really made "now draw her giving birth" in the 70s

I had a great t-shirt reproduction of this cover. Loved it.

i can imagine the modern version of that cover with Superman having both hands on some thicc cake but the face isn't his (probably Jimmy or Myx)

Ok but Stary-eyed Siren is a double initial even if it's not an L (clearly since he went back in time he progressed further down the alphabet.)

Would be fun to see someone draw the flipped perspective of this comic cover

The Adventures of Newscaster!

Loved the cover!

I had thought that the comic was a light-hearted reaction to an article Isaac Asimov wrote explaining why Superman's flight power didn't make sense... but I've since read that it was instead his disavowal of a fake quote about Superman going faster than light was the inspiration. Superman 355 seems like the sort of quirky issue you tend to cover!

"Pinnacle of evolution" 😶

Thanks for the fun reading. I love how you really sold the melodrama of Rija's sobbing. I definitely feel it was a good slice of life adventure that the creative team at the time was using to gauge interest. Would a race of alien brains sell comics on huge amounts of romance over action? Hmm...

I would give it a read. I liked the Star Trek episode with Diane Mulder and would like to see how closely the Superman story is to the episode. I would not see my first Star Trek episode until I was about 5 or 6 in 1974 or '75 when Star Trek the Animated Series was first shown. I was glad to see the live action show when I was a bit older. I didn't read a Superman comic until 1977 when I received 3 comic books at a Christmas party at school when we used to get gifts for classmates. By the way I love the Super Goku shirt. Dragonball Z was awesome.

My guess, in answer to Rick's question about a superbaby, was that they became the Adam and Eve of the planet Daxxam, Mon-El's home planet. Since Kryp and Ton were the Adam and Eve of Superman's home planet, as revealed in one of the World of Krypton stories.

Actually, though, Superman thinking that if people stopped treating each other badly, he wouldn't be needed... hasn't he saved Earth from alien invasions too?

You always do great voices but that was amazing acting during the crying scene. I genuinely felt uncomfortable.

I always give your videos a thumbs up. But you're getting it this time specifically for your DB T-shirt. 👍

I love your show so much

Interesting. I was reminded of an entirely different Star Trek episode: “By Any Other Name” - S02E22. It's got that whole jealousy thing with the aliens experiencing physical bodies for the first time. Superman takes on the role of Kirk in that he is the guy meant to make the female's true love green with envy.

Really loving the bronze and silver age delve how about some of the flash 70s adventures next 😊

Can you imagine if Sasha and Drake did a comic podcast? Id do an actual paywall for that shit.

LClark kent news newscaster is an amazing idea.

That’s quite the cover by Neal Adams.