I mean, if you’re on this site, and especially if you’ve been here long enough or just travel the same circles, you do know some of these facts as I’ve reviewed the comics in question. The rest are quite fascinating and some of you more casual visitors might not know some of them.
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You could always call the Ghost Busters. Except the first ones won’t show up until 1975.
Captain Atom vol 2 #82
Charlton Comics Group (September, 1966)
“Captain Atom Vs The Ghost”
WRITER: Dave Kaler
PENCILER: Steve Ditko
INKER: Rocke Mastroserio
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
no colorist or editor credited
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That Park Place has a summary of Daily Beast‘s early review. Is it a sabotage attempt? Maybe. That doesn’t mean I’m not going into this movie with my own concerns, and I’m certainly no defender of the Snyder movie that doesn’t even want to use the name “Superman” at any point in the movie. However, with so much focus on James Gunn’s directing in marketing, Gunn stating that he never really understood Superman, leaked plot points pointing to his career and issues with critics framing the focus, saying The Flash was a great movie, his general directorial style, working with Tom King to adapt his questionable take on Supergirl, stuff I’ve seen in the trailers, and even breed swapping Krypto to his dog, I’m not going into this with a positive attitude. Which was also what happened with Man Of Steel. At best I expect to say the same thing about Superman: Legacy that I did about Man Of Steel: a decent superhero movie but a bad Superman adaptation. I hope to be proven wrong, but we’ll see.
In our last installment we checked in with the Op-Center crew as they tried to figure out how Striker can save the world without causing an international incident.
Speaking of Striker, we’re checking in with the undercover pair. We know the bad guys know they’re there but our heroes don’t know their cover is already blown. That tends to be a problem for the good guy agents in this story. I would question whether or not the bad guys are responsible, but they’re killing people instead of capturing them and deporting them back to whatever country they’re spying for, and Fields-Hutton wasn’t there to kill anyone. He was just investigating Commie Op-Center, so they could have sent him home. I don’t even think they sent the body home as a “warning to others” or something. So they’re evil at any rate.
As for George and Peggy, will they go home and how? Will Peggy get payback for Fields-Hutton? Probably not in this chapter, but let’s check in with them and see how they’re doing.
This is the part where some reviewers claim they won’t kink shame people. I’m not one of those reviewers.
The Night Man #5
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
“Alone”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Kyle Hotz
INKER: James Minor
COLORING: Tim Duvar & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
NOTE: Perch swears quite a bit in this one.
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No, James Gunn, Superman Is NOT An Immigrant! (but I’ll tell you who is)
There are so many things about Superman I get tired of hearing because it’s wrong. He’s not boring. He’s not a “boy scout”. He’s not too powerful (in the right hands). He’s not “Supergod”, he’s SuperMAN. He can be defeated without getting beat up or killed. He is doing more than wearing glasses as Clark Kent. He and Lois have a fine…love life. The list goes on forever of stupid takes on Superman. Not personal tastes, mind you. That too powerful thing…if superpowered superheroes aren’t your thing, that’s fine. He is not the most powerful being in the universe, and he doesn’t have to be, though his powers can lead to good stories if you understand the characters and the world he lives in.
The one we’re talking about just got spit out by James Gunn, of James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn fame. I hear he’s directing a movie with “Superman” in the title.
Because Kal-El comes from a little piece of space debris that used to be a planet called Krypton, there’s this annoying opinion, usually among activists easier to claim the most famous superhero as “one of us” but not limited to that, treating Superman as some immigrant allegory. They even try to say it goes back to the very beginning, except that Jerry Siegel was born in the US and Joe Shuster was born in Canada, which is still North America and rarely is anyone from Canada treated as an “immigrant” the same way other countries are. Possibly because our cultures are similar enough, but this is a storytelling site. Treating Clark Kent like he’s South American or something is a storytelling issue, though, because these people try to cast Superman’s story as that of an immigrant. Except that was never the case. “Krypton” was just an excuse to explain his superhuman abilities before the Silver Age leaned heavily on sci-fi and started showing us more of the place pre-explosion.
That didn’t stop James Gunn from going to UK news site The Times and trying to convince everyone that Superman has “always been political” and that it’s the story of an immigrant. Gunn didn’t want to do a Superman movie initially because he said he didn’t know what to do with the character. Days away from James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn hitting theaters, and we have more evidence he still doesn’t.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 8, 2025 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged Clark Kent, commentary, DC Studios, James Gunn, James Gunn's Superman, Superman.
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