I was gonna write a bunch of lame jokes like I usually do, but decided I didn't need to. The Supermobile needs nothing from me to be fun. All you need to know is that Superman lost his powers during a fight with Amazo, a robot with all the powers of the JLA, and he built the Super-mobile to replicate all his powers and stay in the fight.(You can click and enlarge the pictures below to read the dialog more clearly.)
The first thing Supes did with the Supermobile was run over Amazo...
...beat him up with it...
...and impress the JLA with his fly new ride.
Ollie always gotta try bust somebody's balls, don't he? Any way, Superman was powerless for a while, and in that time the SMB (that's what they called it) became pretty famous in its own right.
This is here for two reasons. One, it shows off the Supermobile using one more of Superman's powers, and two, the thugs dialog in the lower panels is solid gold.
This story took place in Action 481-483. I don't know if the SMB ever showed up again after Superman got his powers back, but it didn't get mothballed. It got licensed.
I know the dialog from those panels up there seem like an obvious toy advertisement, but these were the days before He-Man and Transformers cartoons and the ugly cynical world that came as a result of them. This is the first of the of the Supermobile toys, released about a year after the vehicle made its debut in the funnybooks. It's a little Hot Wheels/Matchbox sized diecast toy made by Corgi. I want one of these so bad I can't stand it, but I've never found one in decent shape. (Well, in decent shape I could afford.)
In the 80s came the Super Powers action figure line, and this guy. It's got a battering ram instead of fists, and a new backstory. The blurb on the box said Superman built it to knock out Kryptonite meteors around Earth. Which is as good a reason as any to build one.
The Supermobile made it's triumphant return to the comics recently thanks to Gail Simone and Mike Norton. In The All New Atom #8 the Atom visits a future where cities have adopted various super heroes as the basis for their governments, and he arrives just before forces from the cities following Superman and Batman arrive. The Super-city's fleet? Supermobiles. Both flavors.
(Highlighted mainly to draw attention to the less obvious smaller one.)It's silly, but when I was a kid I loved my Super Powers Supermobile. Though as an adult I have to admit I prefer the one with the fists.
And yes, I know this makes me a total hypocrite after making this post, but come on, you have your choice between something called "The Matrix Conversion Coupe" and "THE SUPERMOBILE!" what are you going to pick?
4 comments:
Forget about making fun of the Supermobile, how criminal of you to not even *mention* that GORGEOUS Garcia-Lopez cover!!
Btw, the Supermobile was one of my top five dream toys when I was a kid, right up there with the GI Joes fighter plane (Super-Caça Bombardeiro, we called it here), the Cobra Plane, Greyskull Castle and the Thundercats HQ.
Where does Supermanium come from? Is it an alloy he created?
Is there no end to Superman's ingenuity?
Supermaniam is naturally occurring, it's just that Superman is the only one who can do anything with it.
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