Oddbean new post about login | logout I was just thinking about how hilarious it was that in the original superman comics he was a reporter for a newspaper That really dates things, doesn’t it? It’s been so long since I read the comic that I’m wondering … Did he ever … *write* anything? Did the comic, with any frequency, describe stories he’d filed, the reception of them … the execution of his job, as it were? there have got to be Superman experts on Mastodon who know the answer to this question 😂
@59034767 there’s some nice copy editing jokes in the movie
@59034767 Is this one from a real issue? Looks legit and from Smithsonian Mag https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/legacy_blog/daily-star.jpg
@59034767 Superman is still a journalist and is always doing journalism. Superman 1 and 2 and Batman Vs Superman movies both heavily feature Clark's journalism. Clark has always been a journalist in the comics. In the 70s he was promoted to TV reporter but that created too much difficulty in thinking of ways for him to slip away. My favorite interaction with it though is in the Cartoon from the 90s where Lois asks Clark where he gets all his scoops and he tells her point blank "I am superman i just pretend to be a human" and she doesnt believe him https://youtu.be/l_Z40-FcjnM
Here's a sequence from a comic that refers to him working on an "offshore drilling piece" ... https://screenrant.com/superman-speed-change-phone-booth-action-comics/ But again, scanty on the details. I'm wondering if there were any issues that discussed the content of a story he wrote with any granularity ...
@59034767 I heard Clark Kent started in production, but hot metal type was his Kryptonite
@59034767 vol 1. 79 is proof that Clark Kent was legit part of the news industry: "The Daily Planet is sold to a new owner, John Wilton, who already owns three papers in Metropolis. A few days later, he decides to close it down. Superman suggests the staff get temporary jobs whilst they publish a rival newspaper. " https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_79
@59034767 Depending on the continuity, Clark has won a Pulitzer ot two, and written some award winning novels. https://screenrant.com/facts-you-did-not-know-about-clark-kent/#he-has-won-awards
@59034767 I want to see Clark Kent working on a super realistic HBO show about under-funded murder police figuring out Gothams organized crime. Perhaps with Bruce Wayne on as producer or something.
@59034767 2:00 in . . . https://youtu.be/oBO5f56zqWM
@59034767 A sentence that could be parsed in two ways: when disguised as Clark Kent, newspaper reporter, he tracks down rackets and injustice... or, #Superman, who incidentally disguises himself as newspaper reporter Clark Kent, tracks down rackets and injustice! "Disguised as CLARK KENT, newspaper reporter, SUPERMAN tracks down rackets and injustice!" (Muncie Evening Press, June 3, 1942) https://ieji.de/system/media_attachments/files/111/140/969/674/616/802/original/bbec72cbd8a2025d.jpg
@59034767 i'm only a very casual DC reader, but from what I remember: various panels have the occasional byline, typically on the front page, often in non-Superman titles, typically about crime. His activities seem to mainly be 1) helping Lois Lane, who is the real badass scoop-machine, and 2) interviewing people, typically super-villains. Both him and Lois are predominantly local reporters covering a big East Coast metro area.
@59034767 Superman: Birthright series by Mark Waid starts with Clark reporting on political unrest and corruption in Africa.
