Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
Originally Posted by Wonder Boy
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PixieP said:
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the G-man said:


Another, big, WTF:

"The Super Sons" run in World's Finest in the 1970s. Teenaged sons of Superman and Batman who, according to the editors, were not a dream, not a hoax, not an imaginary story, but simply an heretounexplored aspect of our heroes' multi-faceted lives.

WTF?

Eventually, realizing that this facet should REMAIN unexplored, the writers and editor concocted ANOTHER WTF, explaining the sons away by stating they were a Fortress of Solitude computer simulation that Superman and Batman would sit around and watch for hours on end (yeah, that's MY idea of entertainment).

WTF?

Yep. I remember that one. Still have the issue of the latter. The sons found out they were creating all the disasters on Earth and simply jumped in a core of burning energy and that was that. Batman was crying at the end of the story...WTF? Indeed!!!

I just read this story for the first time over the weekend, in WORLD'S FINEST 263 (July 1980, story by Dennis O'Neil, pencilled by Rich Buckler, inked by Dick Giordano ).
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e3/23/25/e32325d9169097ce6106eb7deef31b23.jpg
www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=97494828320%20263
I was surprised to see a story of this substandard quality from the pen of Dennis O'Neil.
It didn't add any originality to the story that multiple panels of Buckler's art throughout were swiped from several Neal Adams BATMAN stories (particularly BATMAN issues 232, 243, 244 and 245, B & B 79, and possibly other Adams books I'm less familiar with)
A bit corny, but still fun reading.

The end kind of reminded me of the last 10 minutes of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, where the Super-sons willingly go to their final fate.


The first "super-sons" story was in WORLDS FINEST 215, so this story vehicle lasted roughly 50 issues, although many issues in this run featured Batman and Superman without the super-sons.

I dug these out of my collection recently and was looking at them again. There were a total of 12 "Super Sons" Batman/Superman stories,and here's a link to each of the complete individual issues :

215 by Haney and Dillin/Scarpelli, Jan 1973.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-215?id=47861
216 Haney and Dillin/Anderson, Mar 1973.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-216?id=47862
221 Haney and Dillin/Anderson, Feb 1974.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-221?id=47868
222 Haney and Dillin/Colletta, Apr 1974.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-222?id=47869
224 Haney and Dillin/Colletta, Aug 1974.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-224?id=47871


228 Haney and Dillin/Blaisdell, Mar 1975.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-228?id=47875
230 Haney and Swan/Blaisdell, Mar 1975.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-230?id=47878
231 Haney and Dillin/Blaisdell, July 1975.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-231?id=47879
233 Haney and Dillin/Calnan, Oct 1975.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-233?id=47881
238 Haney and Dillin/Calnan, Jun 1976.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-238?id=47886


242 Haney and Chan/Calnan, Dec 1976.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-242?id=47891
263 O'Neil and Buckler/Giordano, Aug 1980.. https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/World-s-Finest-Comics/Issue-263?id=47914


Although I've never seen it, there's a BATMAN/SUPERMAN: SAGA OF THE SUPER SONS collected trade of them, published twice, in 2007 and 2017.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Superman-Batman-Saga-of-the-Super-Sons/TPB-Part-1?id=146623

ViewComic Online seems to be down, possibly permanently.

So I updated this post with ReadComicOnline links.