How Gay Is Superman?

[rivkat]

LA Times story. Excerpt from the Advocate story that sparked it.

Cover:


Best blog post title answering the question.

Bonus: actual trading card in which Superman comes out of the closet.

Comments

[brownbetty]

I wonder how DC's Elseworlds fit in -- there hasn't been one in which Kal-El's skin wasn't "white."

But there was one pre-crisis Earth where Superman was black, as was, I believe, Supergirl, (although they were married, unlike the Superman most people are familiar with.) Of course, he got kaboomed out of existence.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

My pre-Crisis knowledge is all but nonexistent, and I don't remember that Earth from my big illustrated guide to Superman. Do you remember where they show up -- just in Crisis, or in other comics before that? Does anyone from outside their continuity say anything about their skin color?

[shiba-inu.livejournal.com]

You know, if your ignorance on this topic really bothers you then you should take yourself down to either Borders or Barnes & Noble. Their graphic novel sections usually carry a hardcover encyclopedia (both DC and Marvel) that will fix you right up.

[brownbetty]

My pre-crisis knowledge is also very small. So far as I know, they only show up in the Superhero-palooza that is the crisis.

I believe the "d" stands for dork.

[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

That universe (Earth-D) only appeared in a single issue of Legends of the DC Universe, which was an anthology title of "missing scenes" from various bygone eras, sort of. (there was a flashback Batgirl story, a Barry Allen three-parter, etc.) So even though the story was published in February 1999, it functions as a missing part of "Crisis on Infinite Earths." It was written by Marv Wolfman.

Earth-D's heroes are generally more diverse than ours; there's also an Asian guy who's The Flash, and I think I recall Hawkman and Hawkgirl being Egyptian or Indian or something like that.

(Then their universe explodes.)

Re: I believe the "d" stands for dork.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

(Then their universe explodes.)

Too bad, then!

Thanks for the detailed information.

I want to say this discussion all has something to do with Teyla stabbing people with knives, but it's too complicated and would probably get me stabbed.