Mort Weisinger

But actually, I don't even know that, like...

But really, what's interesting, I think, is that Jim Shooter was trained under Mort Weisinger.

So, like, in a way, this feels like one of those Silver Age-y DC books to me, where it's like, okay, we have a lot of shit happen, but does it amount to much? I don't know.

The next issue, everything's going to be back to normal.

Uh, Ira Schnapp is also the one who'd do a lot of the logos and stuff back then.

Uh, and it was edited by Mort Weisinger, who was the, sort of the guy who lorded over the Superman part of the DC Universe as an editor.

So this, this book, the, the Legion definitely comes in under the Superman umbrella because Superboy's gonna be a part of it.

So, but yeah, I, I enjoyed the story because of the fact that, um, they do kind of have an interesting way of bringing it in and the like.

Uh, we witness the origin and the first appearance of Supergirl in a story called The Supergirl from Krypton.

Kara Zor-El, Superman's long lost cousin, arrives on Earth and adopts a secret identity to adate, to aid Superman in the ongoing fight for truth and justice.

So Henry Boltinoff on script, Curt Swan again on pencils, Al Plastino was inking him, Schnapp or Saladino probably on letters, and Mort Weisinger again is gonna be, 'cause we are still in, uh, still in on the, uh, the Superman side of the house.

So, strongest...

Art by Bob Oxner.

and world's finest comics number 166 cover date may 1967 cover price 12 cents cover artists kurt swan and george klein edited by mort weisinger featuring the danger of the deadly duo written by jim shooter art by kurt swan and george klein are you ready are you with it then away we go go

Thank you.

Thank you.

So we don't really get much of that.

It is interesting, this whole period of time, this was a Mort Weisinger era story.

They are building out this whole lore.

Everything had to do with Krypton, with things like the Phantom Zone projector.

And, you know, the proof of the pudding, he started as a professional comic book writer at the age of 13 or 14.

He sent stories, ideas into Mort Weisinger at DC Comics.

Sure.

And Weisinger, who I don't know and never met, but thought he had some really good ideas.

Me am Supergirl, me throw ball, and like that.

Had Mort Weisinger ever met an actual toddler? Um, yeah, my wife had the exact same complaint.

She's like, no child has ever spoken like that in the history of children.

I mean, children make mistakes in their speech, obviously, but it's going to be different for every child everywhere in every family.

Of course, in this era, at times, stories would start as a cover illustration.

Someone would draw a picture of the cover or the opening splash panel.

Often the editor Mort Weisinger would do this and the writer was expected to spin a story around that image.

Sometimes those cover or splash panel images would end up being extremely tangential to the story.

And then the Legion's got their stuff in Adventure.

And I just think probably the editor, and I think it's Weisinger's editing both of them, Mort Weisinger, he's just, let's keep them separate.

Yeah.

I mean, so when I read, so I did go and read, so I read Action Comics 267, her attempt at joining the Legion, which I can remember off the top of my head because her actual joining is 276.