 Hi everyone, this is Chicho. Welcome to my channel, and welcome to another comic book reading. We are doing a reading for today, live stream reading of Superman, number 37, from 1952. And this is the oldest Superman comic in my collection, one of the oldest comic books in my collection. I believe I do have some comics in the early 1940s, maybe late 1930s. Nothing related to Superman or action comics. So this is the oldest DC superhero comic book that I have in my collection. And I picked this up recently in the last few years. And the person I picked it up from graded this thing at 55.5. So very good, fine, fine minus. And I would tend to agree with them. I did flip through this when I first bought it. So it's a nice book. And I'm glad we're reading it because I'm actually thinking about sending us to be graded. But aside from that little quick little lowdown, let's take a look at the cover. And what I want to do actually, I want to take this off out of the mylar. And just let you know who some of the creators of our that have worked on this. Let's take this out. Now this is DC Comics, right? Obviously. And the cover for this is... Pencils is by Wayne Boring and the inks is by George Rousseau. And this character here is the prankster, I believe. I don't know the prankster. I think this is going to be the first time I'm ever reading a story about the prankster. And I really don't even know what the oldest appearance of the prankster is. It looks like a badass. He puts TNT in a box. What Superman's amazing X-ray vision reveals. Look at that. Superman's not happy about that, but he does have a grin. A gift for me? No thanks, prankster. You keep it. Now I don't know if this is the first appearance of the prankster, but I'm assuming it should be the first appearance of the prankster. And the other people that have worked on this are Alvin Schwartz and Dorotka. George Rousseau, as I said, he's done a lot of inking on this. Dan Carman, Stan K., Whitney Ellsworth, Sam Citron, I wrote all these names down. And Jerry Siegel is supposed to have worked on this, too. And what I found out is weird, I'm not 100% sure on this. But it says here, everything that I found out was Alvin Schwartz was the artist for the first story, and Don Carman was the artist for the second story and whatnot. But they were supposed to be signed as Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, the creators of Superman. So what I'm gathering is Alvin Schwartz was probably the ghost artist for this, or writer for this, and then just signed it as Jerry Siegel or Joe Schuster. It's interesting, I'd love to sort of dig down into the golden age of comics a little bit more to dig down into the history, but I think that's going to require reading one, two, three, or five, five books or something on the subject. And this is a nice, great copy. Now we're not going to flip through this thing because we're just going to read the stories, but let's look at the back cover as well. Lighter moments with fresh, everyday batteries by war bonds. Ever ready, not everyday, ever ready. Wow, ever ready was around back then with batteries. Ever ready ignition, dry salad with the battery on that thing. Which one of you guys is cutie pie? Who's cutie pie? Maybe the guy with the red hat. Never ready. What does that say? I'm focusing. There we go. Let's get the job. Let's get the job and get it over. What? Ready. Number six, dry cell continues to provide dependable power for the vital field telephone equipment of our armed forces. But you'll be glad to know they are available in increasing quantities for civilian use. Fresh, full-powered, long-lived, as always. Ask for them at your dealers now. The registered trademark, ever ready and ignition, distinguished products of National Carbon Company Incorporated. Cool. And this is 1945. Coming out of World War II, eh? Very cool. I mean, seriously, the history of this thing is insane. Insane. 52 page magazine. Nice clean artwork, right? And look at the spine. So if we send this over grading, let's see what this will come back as, right? And tomorrow we're going to do some comic book gradings. And I'm not a professional grader. We'll pull up the page from a website where they say what should be graded is what. And we'll see what we can do about it. So gang, let's go through this. What is this thing up here? B is for beaver who chews trees and bark. But when he's real chewy, he looks for this mark, a Superman publication. Batman. Batman is Batman ad. On the cover of Batman, for example, it's your guarantee of the best of any comic magazine. Batman. It's this seal that they're talking about right there. A Superman publication, DC Comics. And we have that thing here as well, right? There we go. They're talking about this guy right there. A Superman publication. November, December, 10 cents. So this is spanning two months, right? That's why when we did the math, we should double what it's going back as, right? So six years, right? If it's coming out once every two months, Superman comics, I didn't realize that. So 36 divided by 12 is 3. Multiply by 2, that's 6. And this is 1945. So Superman comics came out in 1939. Very cool. Very cool. Let's read this as well. Editorial Avertile Advisory Board. Superman DC Comic Magazine. Dr. Loreta Bender, Associate Professor of Psychiatry. Psychiatry, Psychiatry School of Medicine, New York. Wow, University. Pearl S. Buck, Author. The Good Earth, The Promise, etc. Winner, 1938 Nobel Prize. President, The State and West Association. Joseph Frank, Consultant on Children's Reading. Child Study Association of America. Wow. Bess B Lane, Educational Director, United Parents Association. Dr. C. Bowie Millican, Department of English Literature, New York University. What? They have all these people on their board of directors, advisors. Dr. W. W. D. Sons. They probably just paid him a little bit of money to have him be able to put their names on here, right? Professor of Education and Director of Circulation Study, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Robert Thorn Dyke, Department of Educational Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University. Com, I don't know what Com what's that for. Com Gene Tooney, USNR. Former World's Heavyweight Boxing Champion. Member Executive Board, New York Boy Scout Foundation. Wow. Commander, I guess. Commander Gene Tooney. The following magazines all bear the trademark as your guarantee of the best in comic reading. Action Comics, Adventure Comics, All Funny Comics, Batman, Boy Commandoes, Buzzy, Detective Comics, Leading Comics, More Fun Comics, Real Screen Comics, Star Spangled Comics, Superman, World's Finest. So those are all the publications that DC Comics was putting out at that time. Cool. That's super cool. Let's read the fine print on this. Superman, No. 37, November, December, 1945. Published bi-monthly by Superman Incorporated. 430 Lexington Avenue, New York, 17. New York FW Ellsworth Editor. Re-entered a second-class matter June 25, 1940 at the Post Office. At New York, New York, under the act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription in the US 75 cents including postage. Entire contents copyright 1945 by Superman Inc. For advertising rates address Richard A. Felden, K.N. Company. 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York, 17, New York. Except those who have authorized use of their names. The stories, characters, and incidents mentioned in this pre-article are entirely imaginary and fictitious. And no identification with actual persons living or dead is intended or should be inferred. Printed in the USA. Very cool. That's pretty cool. I don't think we've seen a board of directors editorial advisory board like this. And this is pre-comic code. So they were really trying to make sure their products were G rated. So, gang, should we do a reading of Superman number 37? Let's go through this. There should be four stories in this. Three main ones and a two-pager. So, let's take a look at this thing. It's weird. Just gonna give you this. There's a name right there. Okay. Let's read through this because the names of the stories here from what I could find online are the first one is a dangerous dream. The second one is pranks for profit and then crime in the art studio and then the rubbish robbers. And the name of the story is right there. I thought it was supposed to be up here, but it's not. So let's take a look at this thing. Superman. Superman dream cinema. Now playing illusion in Tibet by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. The mural is tribute. Super fun. Strange indeed is the stuff of dreams, but stranger still is the perilous reality which brings Superman to the endangered dreamers rescue. But when the man of steel turns his Elimitable. Elimitable. Genius. To steal. To... To psych... It's so difficult to read when the lines are going sideways. Where does it say? But when the man of steel turns his Elimitable genius To psychology in order to restore Johnny Frey's shattered morale. It leads to the unexpected trouble for Clark Kent. Nothing but a climatic clash with crime can then dispel the ex-policeman's resentful reaction to the dangerous dream. Is that like Clark Kent in the ticket booth selling tickets? Looks like it. So Superman selling tickets to his own show. Is this the dream sequence? The beginning of the dream sequence? Maybe not. Night Extra Planet. Velvet Gantz gang slips through police net. Police Johnny Frey resigns after Mob escapes him. No reason given for action of former cop hero. Impossible. Why should Johnny Frey resign? The force meant everything to him. Clark thinks. Or says. Frey came out of the hospital only two weeks ago after being wounded in a gun battle. Well, he took three Desperados single-handed. Clark says. Yes, there's no doubt about his courage. He's refused to talk to reporters, but maybe he'll talk to me. We're pretty good friends, Clark says. Well, go see him. There may be a story in it. I'm assuming that's Clark's editor. Boss, that afternoon is Clark Kent Johnny. I'm not talking to the press Clark, but come on in. There's Johnny. How about telling an old friend why you resigned Johnny? I know I can trust you, Clark. Besides, if I don't talk to someone, I'll go crazy. But if you ever blab, Johnny says. He's reading a lot of books. I'm yellow, Clark. Plain yellow. I could have nabbed a valedict gang. But ever since I was hurt in that gun battle, my nerves become gone. My nerves been gone. That's why I didn't want to force to find out. Oh, he lost his nerve. Now, now I lie around reading these adventure books to stimulate my courage. In my sleep, I dream I'm a hero of the stories. Every night I do it. Funny, isn't it? Me, the daring Johnny Frey. I'm sorry, Johnny. Terrible story, Clark says. Is that a picture of himself in the background in a suit? Yeah, looks like it. Afterwards, as Clark leaves, what a tragedy. Reading and dreaming. And too proud to tell the world what's happened to him. If only dreams could come true. And why shouldn't they? Yes, why not? Clark's got an idea. With the help of Superman, he says. There he is, reading a book on Tibetan travels, and half asleep already, eyes on the windowsill. Or outside, anyway. Asleep at last, now. Now, let's run through this book and examine the stuff that dreams are made of. That's what I was reading in the book. 500 pages, reading time, 10 seconds for Superman. It's going to be some jaw setting, the exact scene, and getting the paraphernalia. But I think I know where to go, he says. I've done some pretty big favors for the Metropolis Museum. The curator later be glad to provide me with what's needed. Later, like a Superman grabbing all this stuff. Later, gracious, what a load. Are you sure you have everything? Yes, and thanks to the museum, you've been a great help, Superman says. And this abrupt, as it may seem, is the first part of our story. It ends the first part of the story. It's going to continue after like a... Oh, so he goes assess this up. Look at this, look at this. So we end here, and we black out, and here we go. But we resume our tale two hours later to find a strange beast howling outside the skin hut somewhere in the mysterious recesses of mountainous Tibet. Some animal growling, assuming it's supposed to be a wolf. While inside the hut roused suddenly from slumber is Johnny Frey. That shriek, it was like, huh, where am I? What am I doing here? This tent is vaguely familiar. Of course, that picture of the interior of the explorer's hut in the book I was reading before I fell asleep, surely I'm dreaming. But how real it seems. That shriek again. Why, it's just like the book where the author picked up his rifle and went outside. Holy smoke, the gun is jammed, click. But it happened like that in the book too. Dream or no dream, I've got to act fast. Now I remember, I'll do what the author did. If it fails, I'll know I'm not dreaming. It worked, it worked. So far, funny, it doesn't seem like dreaming at all. He just jumps under the wolf. Next, the author uses his rifle butt this way to apply additional leverage to the dog's lead so that it's own momentum carried it over the edge of the cliff. Oh man, he just killed the dog. It worked. The most harrowing dream I ever had. Still, I seem to get a kick out of it. Don't even want to wake up. There's Superman reading the book referencing it. Well, what is all this dream or reality, perhaps a certain familiar figure crouched watchfully behind the nearby Boulder can provide the answer. Tibet, the book says. So far, he's too confused to be afraid and he's going by his memory of the book believing it's a dream. Lucky I didn't have to interfere. That beast might not have followed the script. Oh, kidding. Yes, it was Superman who set the stage, whisked the sleeping Johnny off to Tibet, jammed the rifle and planted the wild dog exactly reproducing the conditions of the book. But now what? The next danger according to the book would be the landslide that, oof, landslide that, oof, beats. And they're coming this way. Better investigate beats, hoof beats, hoof beats. No sound effects to tell us. There's the hoof beats. Vicious looking lot, probably a robber band headed towards the hut too. Maybe I ought to stop them after all. This is one of the guys from the mural in front of the theater, right? No reason for Johnny's dream to follow the book exactly. This real danger should stimulate his courage as well as the one I intended to plant. And meanwhile, I'll keep watching in case things get too difficult. There's Johnny's little hut. A moment later, wow, I'm being shot at. Lucky I fixed my rifle. Man, so there must be fire coming at him. This didn't happen in the book and that shot seemed real. Still, I must be dreaming. Otherwise, how did I get here? Flies back, fires his rifle. That's funny. They stopped firing. And why are they building fires behind those rocks? From his vantage point above, they're building smoke fires and using the wind to force Johnny into the open have to do something that can't let Johnny see me yet. He's doing fine so far. There's Johnny right there in the smoke, right? And then there's the people right there. What's Superman up to? This vegetation should do the trick. Have to work fast though before that smoke blindsize Johnny and makes him helpless. Quite a job weaving the stuff into a fan. Is that what he's doing? Seconds later, this ought to make those bandits eat some of their own smoke. A fan was blowing the smoke back out to the bandits. While down below, cough, choke can't stand this much longer cough. The wind is changing and the scoundrels are being choked by their own fire. Smoke themselves out and here they come, Johnny says. Oh jeez. Here's to use chum. Dream or no dream. I'm having fun. Oh my god. What the hell? Smacking the guy. Okay Johnny, you don't have to worry about being yellow after that exhibition. So I may as well but in now here comes Superman. Prancing Pogodas. Pogodas. Superman. Prancing Paga Pagodas. Pagodas. What is that saying? Prancing. Pagodas. Superman. Too bad you fellows have no nice jails but maybe from now on you'll stay home and be good. Boom. Wait a minute. Now I'm beginning to get it. You brought me here. You did it. You're behind all this. But why? Johnny says. Kent told me everything. Thinking I could help you. So I made your book dreams come true and you showed your old spunk again. You're quite cured of fear now. Yeah. Gee. I guess I am Johnny says. I really did battle that beast, didn't I? And those robbers too. Yeah. It was no dream. So I couldn't be yellow anymore. Could I? No Johnny. You couldn't. Now it's time to take you home again. Superman says. And returning Johnny to his room Superman departs leaving the ex-cop to pass the night in further reflection on his experience. But I wonder am I really cured? Or am I kidding myself? After all I thought it was a dream. How could I have acted if I had known it was real? Why I'd have been scared stiff he says. Of course. I've been a chump. Cured. Baloney Superman made a fool of me. That's all Kent's idea too. And after promising not to talk why I ought to knock that guy silly by gosh I think I will too. Oh he's pissed. Next morning at the planet office Clark the velvet gang's been cornered by the police again the mobs barricaded inside the old construction machine plant only two blocks from here and the cops are waiting outside till dark to push them to rush them. I'm on my way chief Well if it isn't blabbermouth Kent about time you came out Johnny says Johnny why? What do you mean Clark asks? He's pissed. He's chasing him. You know what I mean blabbering everything to Superman I may be yellow but I'm still gonna pin your ears back. Now now Johnny I'm gonna hurry the velvet gang's cornered and well so long what a guy of a certain Johnny's his old self again but how to prove it to him hmm the velvet gang maybe I can prove it if I can decoy him there Clark thinks or says hard to say they're not using any thinking bubbles in this Look at him go like a scared rabbit but he won't get away from me he'll cover the he'll cover the velvet gang story all right in pieces wow the guys Johnny's pissed short temper ah there's a police line hey you get back wanna get your head blown off the cops are saying it Kent the planet reporter he'll be killed all the cops says if I figure these mobsters right they won't try shooting me not if they're clever and they've certainly shown they are a visitor what's he gonna do commit suicide don't shoot your sap can't you see he's alone we got more use for him than bumping him off Johnny Fray what are you doing here the cops ask Clark Kent where is he he asks the crazy fool ran into ran smack into the building as if devils were after him and we can't risk rush rushing the place till dark he'll be a goner sure gosh what did I do I must have scared the poor sap silly his blood's on my hands unless I get him out ok so he's his temper is some dude now he's acting like a friend hey Johnny come back the cops are trying to stop Johnny from running in stay back man I'm not risking any lives no matter how much I like Johnny Fray he's not on the force now and if he wants to play hero it's his business we stay here till it's dark the police chiefs is that a mustache what does Johnny plunges into the gangster's stronghold just keep him up you're gonna be waiting right there in line of fire when them coppers charge that ought to slow them up slow them up some Clark just what I figured they'd do oh check this out so when they want to do thinking they're putting it in brackets right they're still using the line for speaking after this I'm not sure when they started using the round bubbles to portray characters thinking but as soon as it's in brackets it's the thinking happening very cool very cool just what I figured they'd do Superman things and Johnny aha only chance to save him is by pulling a crazy act confuse him Johnny thinks oh Johnny Fray alone too we can we can use a hostage like you even better reach copper I'm no copper anymore sap is this guy I'm after well sizzle me he must have this slung nutty he must be slung nutty slung nutty yeah like a fox and here's proof Johnny says he's pulling a fast one look out pasty let me plug him Clark's thinking it worked I knew Johnny tried to save me but now Superman has to make sure Johnny won't get hurt here's Contains for oh Johnny shot him you're too slow rat then there's no sound effects in this interesting I wonder what sound effects got introduced to comics so it's a lead it's a let throwing party you want huh okay let's see how rough the velvet gang can play they're firing blast the guy I can't get him a line on him get a line on him he's hiding behind the machinery look at them scattering like a flock of billiard balls boom he just shot one in the back billiard balls and Clark seems to have gotten away which eases my conscience take cover he thinks he's a one man army bam took one guy down how many of them is there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 maybe 6 maybe 6 of them so far anyway oh there's a lot more looks like it okay heave this will put the crusher on him so Johnny is way back here back there there he is so there's how many 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 8, 9 and 2 on top of him he's taking on a serious gang but suddenly a mighty ally streaks into the scene of battle Superman we're hashed throw in the towel we're hashed throw in the towel look at this that kind of punch we're gonna take people's heads off Superman and he's taking the joint apart the last shovel full of riffraff and they'll all be over and they're Tommy guns nice Tommy guns kapow someone says let's see what Johnny is doing seconds later sorry I had to bust in on your picnic Johnny but I got a tip that the velvet gang was making a stand here Superman says lucky thing too I couldn't have held out much longer Johnny says I'm only here because of that dizzy Clark Kent threw a scare into him so he lost his head and rushed in here I had to try to save him and you did alright too Superman says and Superman thinking now now to give the cops outside the all clear signal they slip back and then slip back and become Clark again Kent disappeared alright but where'd he go I still want to see him Johnny says the way Superman just took off his leg that's a funny foster hello chief have you seen Clark Kent Johnny says now now now look Johnny I still say I was only trying to help you when so there you are and Clark sees coming out of a barrel check that out he was hiding in a barrel funny shake pal I owe you an apology getting Superman to help me really work only it took this little fracas fracas this little fracas you got me into with the velvet gang to convince me our well well Kent says what a story what a story Clark says and you can also print that I'm rejoining the force it's welcome it's welcome it's welcome you'll be Johnny Frey listen to the thrilling adventures of Superman on your local mutual station so that was what he called it radio show Superman so Superman radio show I guess podcast what's this Wheaties oh wow look at this Wheaties commercial for Wheaties an ad for Wheaties Wheaties breakfast of champions look at that is Wheaties still around with that mascot and Wheaties we couldn't lose a game either there's a mascot and the players they look pretty skinny this is the opposition team I guess should we read this let's read this here's what it takes to build a winning breakfast milk fruit and Wheaties famous breakfast of champions big flakes of rich whole wheat roasted honey brown toasted crispy fresh flavor just right with sweet malt syrup that's Wheaties and that's champion nourishment in mighty delicious form put in your bid for lots of milk fruit and Wheaties breakfast of champions start eating like a real champion starting tomorrow morning what does that say Wheaties and breakfast of champions or registered trademarks or general meals incorporated and here's a caveat they always say breakfast of champions with milk and fruit with milk and fruit you gotta get your fruit in there that's the minerals that's what you need and here's the prankster look at this guy this is the second story Superman Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster the joke is on you always prankster look at the smile on this guy he's going after the money let's read the little intro to this have you a practical joker in your home in his if his sense of humor is honest and laugh at himself when the tables are turned well well and good but if he even faintly resembles that walking mount gang mount bank of mischief the one and only prankster steady the story of just that begin with laughter and end in wailing perhaps you can borrow some of the tactics of Superman as he invents spectacular surprises to beat the clowning crime king at his own game pranks for profits that was a mouthful what does he got in there money, jewels, coin, bills, pearls there are many odd stories to be called from a great city like metropolis for example Lois Lane's latest nice feature yarn you've written about some of our more prominent practical jokers Lois I've been keeping notes on them for months Clark and I've found all all kinds writing for the daily mail I believe the joke of some of them rough for instance a Alvin a Alvin Arnold's you say you want a ray smith and you've been here 20 years sit down thank you Mr. Arnold he says you can have a $5 ray smith after you've had a let down in my new trick chair haha oh oh he puts on a prank chair and falls down some like Brewster Lin the society's playboy will gladly take you to lunch but I doubt if you'd enjoy it at you smell coming out of everywhere haha I switched salt salt sellers I switched salt sellers sellers that was filled with sneeze powder and yet another dexter dreams for example do the world a service by taking the conceit out of people yes indeed I bag these specimens in the heart of darkness darkest Africa and this personal risk you don't say exhibit number 13 wild boar stuff with self conceit the golden age jokes your partial to bexter beams because he's rushing you and throwing a big party to celebrate your birthday Clark says is that so Lois Lane replies why not spend less time worrying about me and more getting a story on supermans hunt for the most dangerous of all practical jokers the most dangerous of all practical jokers that description fits only one person the prankster haha the prankster laughs how nice of Lois Lane to suggest a new racket for me now that I've gone AWOL from the sheltering walls of state prison escape from prison so it is that a Alvin Arnold receives a visit from an odd looking little man PR prankster professor of practical jokes or so your cart says have a chair the guy says no thanks that's collapsing chair had whiskers before I did haha but I understand that you're giving a big dinner tonight if you care to have me arrange a little prank that would be the talk of the town for months go on you interest me he says the little guy sitting on his desks evening and evening a fashionable guest gather at the Arnold penthouse I can think of assignments I'd like better than covering this party Clark thinks in the background coming in right better shut your eyes the brilliance of the diamonds is blinding Lois says with all the jewelry everything's shining anyway the food looks good remember Arnold's reputation and don't be surprised if you find a frog in the soup serious spread in an all-cove a weird figure watches gleefully the prankster's thinking Arnold thinks I'm using only a mild current to startle them and none of them none of it none at all on him what a surprise he'll get I just want to shock everyone suddenly the hum of high tension electricity fills the air and Arnold at all but one of his guests are literally paralyzed in their chairs Clark's thinking what electricity and too much of it to be funny it's knocked everybody out zapping everyone including the guy who's throwing the party the rich fat cat right the only one unaffected by the current Clark witnesses the start of one of the strangest robberies of all time ha ha ha this will go down in history as one of my most successful Jess that's the prankster Superman thinks Superman I'll pretend to fall under the table she's unconscious and won't see what's happening he's looking at the lowest lane and the sooner I get her and the others away from the that voltage the better let them fall after that jolt they've had they won't come to for an hour now to turn myself into Superman Clark's thinking darting with the speed of a bullet Superman breaks the flow of current and put a stop to all this nonsense quite a card aren't you prankster Superman says Superman oh no he's dropping all his jewellery collected he's jumping out the window trying to escape Superman frankly I half expected you and let me show you something better make it good prankster says oh the next instant even the iron nerves of the man of tomorrow or jolted momentarily a friend of yours I believe oh he's got lowest lane lowest how did she get out there what's he holding that's messing with lowest lanes seriously piss off Superman oh my god he let her on fire what a nasty dude look at that a burst of flame and a slim figure plummets towards the street far below wow that's the rotten stunt you've pulled yet and you'll spend the rest of your life being sorry for it perhaps you'd better forget about me and take care of her oh look at that my god what the hell down plunges Superman in a screaming dive look at him jump I should have kept an eye on her if only I'm in time oh no she must be terribly burnt perhaps killed and then as he smooths smothers the flames he finds himself the victim of what a more diabolical joke huh only a wax dummy but it was a rotten trick just the same oh so glad he didn't light lowest lane on fire so it was a lowest lane dummy wax dummy meanwhile haha nearest getaway I ever plan and Superman will sure be burnt up about it even if lowest lane isn't serious joke the following day in the home of Dexter beams so your Ajax wild an animal trainer what can you do for me knowing how you dislike that phony big game hunter charmer's light lay I thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane oh he's telling the plans let's see what it is speaking of birthday parties here's Clark a little later shopping for a present for lowest jewelry 37 haha this is Superman number 37 right and there's 37 right there 37 cool Easter egg sort of not really Superman's thinking I can't afford as expensive a present as beams will probably buy but she ought to like one of those compacts and by an odd coincidence the disguise prankster is about to follow suit prankster's thinking there's Clark Kent who has written so many uncomplementary things about me since he's undoubtedly buying a present for the bothersome loss from the bothersome lane girl perhaps I should do so too and get even with both prankster says or thinks that night another gay crowd gathers this time in the beams town house in the beams town house are these the presents for mrs. Lane I'll just put mine with the others wow lowest lane is having a huge birthday party prankster's thinking here's my chance to switch the packages what's he gonna do may I have the next dance mrs. Lane I asked her first she's surrounded by men Clark's in the background thinking I probably won't even get with inhaling distance of her as usual charmer's lane is busy telling heroic stories about himself and as the three tigers leaped through my hunting knife the other guy's yawning knowing that it's all just lies he always hunts from a tower with the natives driving the game past within easy range watch him show watch me show him off that should be interesting Clark says you've all heard about laze prowess now if you'll into the next room I'll show you the big game of bag you a big game hunter preposterous the guy says my trophy room ladies and gentlemen interesting if only you had some trophies the lay person I don't stuff them I bring them back alive and in cage and in case you're thinking leaving, lay the door you came in came in by is locked it's got tiger, lion, or polar bear a lion, a bear a jaguar jaguar the man is insane lion a bear and a jaguar I guess that's a jaguar Clark I'm afraid so am I but I'm glad to note you haven't forgotten me entirely why don't you do something heroic lay the guy is insane it may be a joke but I don't feel like laughing Clark says help police look at this roar everybody's hiding on their tables a moment later Ajax Wilde if you're an animal trainer and these are feeble old circus animals, why are the why all the protection that's his protection from the animals it looks like something is going on right now with plastic coating around it because my friend the laugh is on you these are really wild beasts man killers everyone Clark's like prankster you are climbing bookshelves however if you all toss your valuables down to me I'll leave you this high powered rifle it'll give you a chance what a fool I've been the guy says a shower of jewels and well filled wallets rained down on a grinning villain thank you ladies and gentlemen you're very kind oh Clark, can't you do something me Clark asks and then he's thinking if only I could switch to Superman without giving away the secret of my identity but the grim jest is not yet ended and now to show you my appreciation let my presence a present present you with a beautiful specimen of the rhinoceros family he's got a rhino in there the most dangerous animal alive it's Mer the guy says wait you promised to leave the rifle did I hahaha happy birthday Ms. Lane and good night all you'll pay for this when Superman hears about it lost says alright that's not a Jaguar, that's a tiger most ill tempered of beasts and one of the most powerful the bewildered rhino shakes his head and charges he'll wreck the place kill us all and it's your fault Beams he's thinking I've got to get out and fast that window he's looking at the skyline I didn't mean to have things turn out this way he says Clark Kent if you leave me here I'll never speak to you again sorry Lois but someone has to get help Clark's out the window out the skyline once outside Clark changes in a twinkling to Superman and meets a jeering full man the joke's on you again Superman, whether you know it or not you're needed too badly inside to bother with me just now the prankster says little swirling his mustache laugh why you're able prankster you won't be away far away by the time I finish this little chore a split second later so Clark Kent wasn't kidding when he went down the street yelling that a mangrove was loose in here Superman, I was hoping you'd come and thought you never would that's Lois's silhouette saying that I was hoping you'd come and thought you never would a mountain of bone and muscle hurls towards the man of steel playful fellow isn't he? Superman, as seen then kill elephants pow punches them elephants did you say if there are any around bring them on Superman tosses the stunted animals into their cages and then excuse me but I have a date with a laughing hyena wait for me Superman Lois says high above the city the man's telescopic eyes scan the streets until they spy prankster's car about to enter that garage high time someone played a joke on him for a change moving with the speed of light the man of steel lifts the garage room garage from his foundation haha I could have sworn the garage was there but it isn't the prankster in his car only Superman could do that I'd better get out of sight fast now there's Superman thinking got him worried now but I'm not through yet away he isn't following me if I can only get to oof rams into the telephone pole not a soul in sight I don't like this the prankster thinks it's like a nightmare only I'm afraid it isn't one the prankster is in trouble and he knows it fun isn't a prankster even if I have to repair the damage to property later Superman says I knew it was you all the time haha you didn't fool me for a minute the prankster says Superman postures crazy in the meantime beams guests have quieted down and Lois finally unwraps her presents a compact from Clark wasn't that sweet of him and then the guy who's throwing the party likes Lois I bought her pearls but she's more excited over a simple little gift from that reporter let's see there's a prank in there prankster is prank oh suddenly wonder what's inside boof a trick compact everybody's laughing you don't need a powder puff it explodes in your face haha the police department gets a surprise package also mind if I hang up a bag of worn out tricks sergeant oh I'll be hanged if Superman hasn't caught the prankster drool isn't it haha he's still laughing the prankster obviously he's insane and Clark is on hand to cover the story almost immediately I hear you've got prankster sergeant I'll make a great story for the daily planet if it's true I don't know how new how you newspaper lies find out things so fast can't but you can see for yourself who's hanging around look at prankster he's still laughing haha totally insane the next minute any word on superman's hunt for the prankster what are you that's Lois looks like her face is red maybe that's the coloring she's mad is very mad never mind Lois I've got the story and isn't there too much powder on your nose haha everybody's still laughing you've got a lot of nerve to speak to me after giving me that compact I should have should think you'd had enough of prank practical jokes ah Superman doesn't know what's going on or Clark Kent doesn't prankster's laughing I always managed to have the last laugh haha that's like the Joker in a weird way it'll be a last laugh alright in public but Lois I don't understand the end Clark doesn't know what's going on I wonder who came first I'm pretty sure Joker was around before the prankster like I don't know I haven't looked into the original the first appearance of the prankster and the first appearance of Joker first appearance of Joker happens in detective comics but I believe it's in the 1930s number wise in the 1940s so I'm pretty sure the Joker appeared before 1945 if this is the first appearance of the prankster what's this guy this is a one page story what is this oh this is just an advertisement Volt Volto from Mars Volto another serial look at this Volto from Mars Volto is out of this world magnetic powers conquer a fury inferno in the Timberlands of the great north west save Jimmy save Jimmy and the junior rangers from a tragic fate so little story so Joker was 1940 Elder God looked it up for us in the live stream so Joker was 1940 so the prankster this is 1945 so 5 years later but I don't know if this is the first appearance of the prankster say this is great think I'll take some up to Mars great nut flakes prankster was 1942 Elder God is doing checks for us also so prankster came out 2 years after the joker great nut flakes whole grain general foods again there's a little bit of foxing I believe there's a little bit of foxing right there the browning happening now much and this is the center fold and the staples are really nicely in I don't know if this is going to focus the book is in really good condition and there's a little text story here wow gang we're almost into 2 hours look at this what do we got left here we got another story of Lois Lane and this is we got 2 more stories though I think we're not going to get a chance to read these look at the artwork and that's pretty nice look at this let's just flip through the rest of this let's see so there's one more story which is like a how many page story one and what's this story called girl reporter so this is a Lois Lane story girl reporter nice artwork clean the color is really nice on this here's an advertisement for bite of honey bite of honey need a bit of honey bit of honey I do I want some honey this is no longer around I've never seen it anyway bit of honey too bad I would have bought this when I was a kid when I ate garbage like this daffy and doodle daffy and doodle what is this daffy and doodle let's read daffy and doodle daffy and doodle no daffy and doodle gosh I'll have to shave again you're always crowing about your beard doodle suppose you had to shave 20 or 30 times a day like a man I know 20 or 30 times he says I'd have to see that first to believe it ok then follow me there he is ok that's a funny joke that's a funny joke that's a funny joke that's a funny joke shave 20 to 30 times a day a barber does a barber does and he gets punched for for smarty people like to laugh all funny buying comic books screen comics I don't know screen comics screen comics leading comics buzzy all funny comics cool the symbol of your guarantee of the best in comics so this is DC as well because it's got the Superman publication DC guarantee of the best in comics DC here's another advertisement for weedies Superman garage the rubbish robbers the story is the rubbish robbers the the lowest lane story was written by Whitney Ellsworth and the pencils by Sam Citron and inks by Stan K ok and this one the script is supposed to be Jerry Siegel possibly the pencils by Ed Dubrotka and the inks by Stan K again and Ellsworth was asking how many pages was this I believe this was 52 pages yeah 52 page magazine from 1945 look at all the buzzy's mentioning that you did get your money's worth out of these comics in the golden age and you definitely did get your money's worth out of comics in the golden age right very cool so another story Superman's doing a sketch of the guy lots of dialogue lots of sketchy people like mobsters and gangsters look at that sketchy as hell and they're in behind bars Superman grabs the bad guys and they're blaming each other you had to go mess with Superman I knew we'd wind up here I knew it he says ah shut up I was doing fine in the laundry racket until you swiped that map and got me into all this from now on our partnership is dissolved the thumb macan rescued the doomed liner bazooka joe's bazooka joe's what is this these are shoes I guess are they shoes with his magic bazooka bazooka shoes so it's a shoe advertisement shoes can make you a hero too whoosh look at them go whoo if only you could buy shoes like that thumb macan boys make sure your shoes are thumb macans I don't think this brand is around anymore scuffy scuffy the tramp let's read this little guy too scuffy the tramp what does this say yo what the this is the last straw what's going on oh he was sleeping in the in the straw pile what is that raking hate boop poke them I can't sleep anywhere without being disturbed the drunkard said I think I'll just pretend to toss this rock through that window hey oh he's doing what we read remember in ec comics when we're reading was it ec comics we were reading where the guy was trying to get arrested so he could get a good night's where he could get a meal Christmas meal but this guy which is pretending and he gets arrested thrown in jail and he's sleeping soundly cutting a log cool cool supermen of america secret message oh you gotta decipher the secret message okay you code breakers you can have a snapshot of this and decipher the secret message whatever that says superman's secret message code saturn number 5 and send it here go back in time and send it here superman co care of action comics dear superman please enroll me in a member of the superman of america supermen of america I enclosed 10 cents to cover cost of mailing it is understood that I am to receive my membership certificate emblem and superman code and there's a little bit of you know holes in the thing here that come out through the I guess it was sort of a scratch because there's marks on this side too so rub against something so that would affect the grade as well but yeah I would say this is this is a 5 at least a 5 I would assume because it's in really good condition like intact nothing's loose so that's superman number 37 apologies about not getting to read the last 2 stories but you get your money's worth in the golden age of comics with a 52 page magazine and now we know superman comics both published bi-monthly I don't know why I didn't know that or I didn't remember that so superman comics published bi-monthly right so magazine format really okay aside from that we'll be back we've got more comics to read through your live stream for now I'm gonna go back to the live stream turn on the chat, turn on the cameras and just see how people enjoyed this let's turn these guys on