 Hi everyone, this is Jichou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today, today is March 18th, 2021. It's 11 a.m. Canada, U.S., West Coast time, PST, PDT, Pacific time. And we started another set of comic book readings. We've got five comic books here to choose from. Two of these are from our comic book reading set number four that we sort of laid out like three years ago. And we're slowly knocking things off as well as reading other comic books. One of these was my choice and the other one was viewer's choice, subscriber's choice. I believe Impact is the one I chose. Impact number three from 1955, EC Comics. And this is Uncanny X-Men 266, first full appearance of Gambit. But, well, once we look at it, we'll try to figure out which one should be the official full appearance. This is the first full appearance in the series, numbering sequence-wise. There was another appearance of this in an annual, but the story there occurs after the date of this one. So it's the comic book world. Officially, this is considered to be the first full appearance, but at some point I think we'll have to pull out the annual. I believe I do have it and take a look at that one and see which one we believe to be the first appearance of Gambit. We have I Walk With Monsters from Vault Comics 19, sorry, 2020, came out last year. Okay, and we just got this in a comic book haul. And we have Team Man and we got this in a comic book haul. And we got Superman number 37 from 1945. Cheryl, how are you doing? I hope you're doing well. Fun stuff, comic book time, comic book time. Definitely in a chilled, chilled mood. So looking forward to a comic book reading. It's a good break from a lot of the insanity going around. And through the world of comic books. And by the way, genres here would be superhero, superhero, crime, drama, humor, horror. Okay, so we got a good mix of stuff going on. And that's the beauty of comic books. The genre is all encompassing. All encompassing. I got my tea going on. I'm just going to give my intro. So as we wait for people to roll in. I am on Patreon. Patreon.com forward slash chicho. C-H-Y-C-H-O. If you want to follow this work, you want to support this work, you want to know what this work is about. Patreon is a great way to do so. Okay. For those of you that were supporting this work on Patreon, thank you very much for the support. We are live streaming on Twitch. Twitch.tv forward slash chicho. C-H-Y-C-H-O-L-I-V-E. If you want to participate in these live streams. Twitch is where we're going to do the crack. How are you doing? Afternoon afternoon. Hope you're doing well. And gang, thank you for the support on Twitch. By subscribing, following, liking, commenting. Participating in the chat, showing up to the live streams and months for taking care of business. I do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on Parler, VK, Mines and Gap. If you want to follow the work, you can follow some of the announcements we make on those platforms. I almost forgot about the hour. Yeah, yeah. You guys didn't change the hour, did you? For one reason, some places have stopped changing the hour. We changed the hour, we kicked it back. Back, no, we kicked it forward an hour, like three days ago, so that threw people off. Me as well. As well as Twitch, the automated, what time things are occurring, all messed up. Week on Sunday. Week on Sunday. Okay, okay. Good day chicho. Yoshi, how are you doing? I hope you're doing well. Welcome, welcome to the live stream. And for live streams where we don't have any visuals, we will be uploading the audio to SoundCloud.com forward slash chicho, CHYCHO as a podcast. And that usually applies to, well, there's a fair bit of stuff we're uploading in there, but a lot of politics, a lot of economics, a lot of book discussions maybe and other types of discussions. Anything that we don't have visuals, which we do today. Okay. Good to hear all as well. And we will be uploading this video to SensorTube, to Bichute, and to Rumble. And Odyssey, our points are stuck, so we're not on there. We're not actively uploading there. Whenever we get points, we'll upload there. Whenever that is. Yoshi, I'm doing well. I hope you and Chad are doing well today. Doing well. Nice chill day here. It's weird. It feels like, because we've been doing a lot of comic book readings on Sundays, it feels like a Sunday to me. So I'm like in my Sunday mindset, which is weird on a weekday crack. Are we pushing for, I walk with monsters. This one we have to decide on. Let me take these things down again. And by the way, gang, it is because of the collective support that we're getting on all these platforms that we're able to do this. So thank you very much for the support. And Sambazi, thank you for the follow. Let me take this down. Everyday Sunday for me. I look out for many people, I guess. And should I give it one lowdown? How long will we go for the next six minutes? Let's give one a lowdown of what we got. Let's give one a lowdown of what we got here for today. The readings. Let me take these down. So we're going to start off with the most recent. And it's going to be, we're going to do a poll on this. And you guys decide which one we want to read. This is, I walk with monsters. Came out last year, 2020. Let me do this so the glare doesn't, you can see the cover. I walk with monsters in sequence from the most recent. Okay. And then we'll hit up the oldest. We've got, we've got golden age, silver age, modern age, silver age and modern age. Two golden age, one silver age and two modern age. Okay. This is, I walk with monsters. Okay. Paul Cornell is the writer for this. Okay. I've got my notes all laid out here. If we end up choosing this, I'm going to read a little bit of the write up that Paul wrote for the intro to this. Okay. So Paul Cornell is the writer. He's from the UK. Sally Cantarino is the artist. And she's from the United States. And the colorist is dear, dear law Kelly. And she's from Ireland. So super cool collaboration. Three different countries. Okay. And Paul has done some comic books before, but he's, he's main gig, I believe, is more for television. He's done stuff for a doctor. Who, who else? Some TV shows and whatnot, coordination street and stuff. So he does work in the UK for, in TV, and he's done some comic books. Sally is more new to the comic book industry. She doesn't have too many stuff to her credit. And Kelly is also sort of dabbles in comic books, but she does other, other work as well. It's a collaboration between creators that are sort of their main gigs outside of the comic book industry. And I picked up this comic when it first came out, but we ended up picking this up in a comic book haul, all the variant number ones. And I'll show you go show you those covers as well. If we end up picking this. Okay. First on chat. Catching a chicho stream. Garn, Garn. Gengarrel. Gengarrel? Gengarrel. Can't pronounce names. My apologies. 76, how you doing? Catching stream. I'm expecting some sad man comics tomorrow. So this is very fitting. Oh, you're expecting sad man tomorrow. Nice. What did you get? And this one. X-Men number 266. First appearance of this dude right here. Considered to be the first full appearance of Gambit. Okay. Important book in the comic book world. Important character. And Chris Claremont is a writer for this. Chris Claremont. One of the greatest writers in comic book history. No doubt, no doubt. And as far as I'm concerned, the greatest X-Men writer. Okay. Haven't read all of the writers for X-Men, but... There are segments where some people have written X-Men books that those stories are phenomenal. However, in terms of canon, laying down the foundation of the X-Men, and who the X-Men have become, Chris Claremont is it. Okay. Prelude volume one to start. Oh, nice. And that's the high cost of living. Awesome. Very excited. Excellent. We've done their first reading. We did the reading for Sandman VIII. The first appearance of what do you call it? The death. Right. And that's the last issue that should be in that volume one, I believe. Unless you're talking about Omnibus regarding Sandman. So, man, you're in for a treat and a half. Sandman is amazing and I've still yet to finish the whole series. I gotta read the whole thing from beginning to end again. Death is great. Death is great. Love, death. Oh my God. First time in here. Hello, Chichou. Your math lesson has been the best. Thank you. My pleasure. You four. You're cute. My comic book readings have heard of not that either, even though I pronounce a lot of names. Crack. I just read a Chris Claremont written savage sort of Conan story. It was fantastic. Which issue? Crack. I don't know if I've read Claremont Conan. I gotta get my hands on that. Death, The High Cost of Living was a great read. It was a fantastic read. Fantastic read. I really like the character death. 2020. 1990. Okay. X-Men. And then we go back in time. Gina, how are you doing? Love me some gambit. The gambit is awesome. I'm gonna mess up his accent. And I won't even try, I don't think. Impact. Number three from 1955. EC Comics. I love this cover. This cover is fantastic. I love it. Candy, cigars, cigarettes. Lemonade. 15 cents. Lemonade. Big glass. 5 cents. Small glass. 3 cents. She's undercutting. They do it in the store. Savage sort of issue number 74. Man, I must have read it. Okay, I gotta keep that in mind. If I haven't read it, I gotta track it down. I gotta track it down. Does he have a southern accent? Yeah, he's got a southern accent. He's very chevony. He's a character. He's a character. He's a character. And beautiful cover. And this is EC Comics. This is the second issue of Impact that was in the comic code code approved rollout. Impact number one didn't have the comic code approved sticker on it. Impact number two started it and this is impact number three. Okay, 1955. So first year of Silver Age comics. So right on the cusp, basically. And the people that contributed to this are some of the legends in comics. Feldstein, who are some of the people. Reed Crandall. Mary Severin did most of the colors for this. Al Feldstein. Jack Davis. Jack Gaiman. Graham Ingalls. So those are the people that have worked on this and this is gonna be a fantastic read. And we've read the mad number three, I believe we read. So we've got one EC humor comic under our belt and we've got some sci-fi and horror comic, EC comic book readings under our belt. Louisiana Cajun. Cajun indeed. Crio accent, yeah. Like in the movie. Yeah, like in the movie. But I don't think the movie did as good of a job. I think Gaiman could be portrayed much, much better. This is T-Man. Number three from 19. When did this come out? 1952. Okay, 1952. And this is a recent comic book haul that we did. We picked this up a couple of months ago and we got it dirt cheap, dirt, dirt cheap. We got it for $10 Canadian, which is $8 US and it's graded at like four, very good. And the reason I really wanted this book was because of this death trap in Iran. Pulsating Pete Trusk thriller. So sort of like spy, drama, crime stuff. We'll be a fun read. T-Man. Where do I buy most of my comics? The older comics, lots I buy from eBay. And I have a pull list of my local comic shop that I pick up every Wednesday. So I pull modern comics and I buy older issues mainly on eBay. Because of the lockdowns, you know, there haven't been any comic book conventions, shows. So I have gone to shows a fair bit in my life and bought comic books and shows and stuff too. But my main two buys are my local comic shop through my weekly pull list, as well as special orders for sure, as well as eBay. When I read about the negativity surrounding the film portrayal, I decided not to watch it. Gambit is very close to my heart and I didn't want it. Wait a second. So the gambit movie didn't come out but we're talking about the person that was portrayed gambit with Wolverine, right? Is that what we're talking about? Hello, how are you? Sam Manzi, how are you doing? Gina, is that correct? I knew they're in production for a gambit movie but it's on hold and as far as I knew it hadn't come out, the gambit movie, if it has, let me know. I'm definitely going to watch it. But yeah, I'm talking about the one that was in the Wolverine, in the X-Men movies. It was, yeah, it could have been a lot better. And we've got ourselves GoldenEast Superman. Okay. This is Superman, number 37. 1945. This is the oldest Superman in my collection. It hasn't come out yet, okay, cool. Sam Manzi, I'm very, very happy. We found out today that my name is Cancer... My mama is cancer-free, awesome, awesome. Oh wow, that's Superman looks nice, yeah. Awesome, congrats man, congrats to your mom. Fantastic. Really, that kind of thing when you're going through it puts the world and life into perspective, right? And this is graded at around 5, 5.5. That's what I bought it at, right? I'm a professional grader or anything, but... And the seller I buy from, he grades fairly, you know... This was a local seller that was selling this on eBay and he's a store. So when he says 5, 5.5, I would lean towards the lower end, 5, okay? So I would say, and on the worst case, I would say 4.5. But it's okay. And I paid... This was definitely the most expensive one of the lot. I believe I bought this for around $200 Canadian, okay? And this is Superman, and this one is the people working on it are Alvin, Schwartz, Ed, Dobrak, Dobrakka, George Rosos, Stan Kane, Don Carmen, Whitney, Ellsworth. I got all the names written here. Sam Citron, right? And Jerry Siegel is supposed to be in this too. I believe it was weird. I was looking the stuff up. Alvin Schwartz is sort of credited with doing this, but signing it at Joe Schuster and stuff. So through the golden age of comics, it's difficult to track down who did some of the works for these, because there was ghost writers, ghost artists and stuff like this who were signed their names. And some of the stuff that the art has been accredited to these people and those people is because of people looking at the artwork, being familiar with the artwork of a certain artist and saying, okay, this has to be this person, right? So they reference it. So it's interesting. At some point, I think it'll sort itself out slowly, right? The Superman, this is 1945. This is 1945. Crack. Crack's asking, what did you say the year of the Superman is? Gangrel, 76. Nothing beats that classic comic book art style. Yeah, it's beautiful, right? It's got that colorful, innocent feel to it to a certain degree. I have a Superman from that year. April for me. Gina. Yes, I think I read negative about the selection of the main cast. You still wouldn't watch, Gina. Yeah, I feel you. I feel you. Some of the characters, if you're really love, it'd be hard to watch them being brutalized, really. Punisher was one for me. A few years ago when it came out, Kenny Roberts, nice. Did you see my Batman? Kenny, you put that in the art. Would you drew the Batman? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was really good on a Discord page, yeah? Yeah, yeah, it was really good. It's really nice, yeah. It's a nice copy. It's got staining or shadow up here. And I flipped through it when I first got it. It's a pretty good copy. I'm thinking about sending this to be created after we read it, of course. Right, after we read it. Hey, Gicho. I didn't know how are you doing. Yes, nice. Nice, Kenny. It was good Batman. Nice, right on time, right on time. So gang, we got choosing to do. What do we want to read? What do we want to read? And by the way, I had a hard time choosing which comic books to present here. So there's a, there's, I put more back in the box. Okay, I put more back in the box. But there was three, four, four comic books I pulled here. And they were from a recent comic book haul. One of them was something that Crack recommended. This is Wild Dog. He mentioned that the artist that worked on this was one of his favorite artists. And I haven't read, this is Wild Dog. I haven't read Wild Dog. And the artist was not familiar to me. So I pulled this out because I'd like to check it out as well. Okay, so as soon as we finish one of these, I'm going to introduce one of these ones in there. Okay, actually, two of them were going to go on for sure. Maybe all of them. There's four books I got here. Wild Dog is one. Okay. Then we got Kung Fu Fighter. We got into the Kung Fu Fighter. Because we got a few Kung Fu fans in our midst. One of them is me. One of them is Elder God. Right? And this is the first appearance of Kung Fu Fighter. So it would be great to read it. And by the way, these are the comics. Four of the comics out of the 13 that had a hard time finding their way to us. Right? We went through like two, it was on the third shipment that the comic book seller sent to us. I had to contact them, go through even finally get those 13 books. That's the reason I pulled out these four. I'm like, man, these books had a really long, long track to make it to us. Right? So might as well pay them some respect and have some readings. Right? So Wild Dog. Okay. Kung Fu Fighter. Right? And this will be fantastic. Right? Dragon's really 10,000 points. Oh my God. Don't forget we will do auctions at some point, brother. But thank you for reading with the points, man. Awesome. Awesome. Pull ready. Two minutes. Three minutes. Two minutes, Cheryl. Two minutes. I actually recently read Neil Gaiman's Eternals mini series. I'd recommend to people who like their superhero sci-fi mix. Definitely for fans of green. Oh, really? Awesome. And gang, if you're not watching it, I highly recommend watching American Gods. It's based on a book and the comic books were out. It's a good series. Artist and writer team on both are excellent. They did a great series called Mystery. Well worth hunting down. Okay, cool. I think I know Mystery. The cover of Wild Dog is made. It is. It is. I don't even know what that means. Dragons, do you want to hold on to your points? I don't have to redeem them. I can return them to you. Let me know. Okay, send me a reminder on Discord. That way I won't redeem them and I'll just go, that's cool. You're okay for redeeming them? Okey dokey. Say when. Okay, Lady Cop. First appearance of Lady Cop. We looked at the first page of this. It looks super cool. It'd be cool to read. And people mentioned that we must take back the name Isis. Right? So, Isis number one. Maybe we do this one. Let's see. I have 15.4K built up for the next auction. Nice. Correct. Awesome. Gay? Let me have a sip of tea. Cheryl, you ready with the poll? So dragons, do you want me to redeem? Give the points back? Yeah. I still have 30,000. Okay. Okay. Poll has started, Gay. We got five choices. I walk with monsters, X-Men, Impact, T-Man, Superman. Cast your vote. We got Impact with one vote. Okay. These things are my lars, but they're sticky. We got one vote for, I walk with monsters, X-Men and Impact. We got a three way tie right now. The Golden Age comics are sticking in the background. Poor Superman. I walk with monsters, got two votes right now. X-Men one, Impact one. And Superman's coming up with one vote as well. We're slow polling today. Oh, three votes for, I walk with monsters, two votes for Superman. Three votes for Superman. Impact is going up to two votes. X-Men is at one. We got Superman with four votes. Golden Age Superman coming in. He was just playing with us, man. We got X-Men going up to two votes. We got four for Superman. We got five for Superman. Three for, I walk with monsters and two votes each for Impact and X-Men. First appearance of Gambit. We got six votes for Superman. Superman was just joking with us. Superman was just playing us. Oh, I walk with monsters. Goes up to five votes. Look at this. Who would have thought? Who would have thought? I walk with monsters and Superman. Oh, no, it didn't go. I'm just playing with you. It's six votes for Superman. I walk with monsters, two votes for Impact and X-Men. Which one are we going to go with? Which one are we going to go with? We're down to the last 45 seconds or so. Oh, we got T-Men going up by one. You know what? I'm throwing my vote for T-Men. Poor T-Men sticking there by himself. T-Men has got two votes now. T-Men is tied with Impact and we got X-Men is up to three votes. Superman is at six. We're in the last second, last second, last second. That's it. We're going with Superman Gang from 1945. The oldest Superman comic in my collection. Right? Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Let's check this out. Let's check this out. Let's put these guys here. And Golden Age comics. I love the length, the width of Golden Age comics. They're bigger. Right? Let's take a look. This is modern and silver. They're smaller. You're losing about this much. Right? Check it out. Let me close up this poll. Doop. Poor T-Men. I know. Poor T-Men. No respect. No respect for propaganda. I'm not voting as there is no kung fu. Ah, Elder God. That's the only Isis I have room for. Check this out. Gangrel 76. Automat didn't allow Isis. Zapped Isis. I'm going to allow that. Gangrel 76 is saying that's the only Isis I have room for in my life. Indeed. Right? And Automat. That's the whole thing. This is perfect example of automation. Right? Smart technology and machine learning some of these things and censorship and all this stuff. Automat doesn't understand, can't distinguish between this Isis and the other Isis. So it can't distinguish the fact that we're talking about comic books and there are other characters like that out there in the world, mythology and otherwise. Right? So that is the problem with a... one of the main problem was taking place in technology right now, in the world right now. Superman never loses, I guess, never. Shortlist God, how are you doing? Nice big crack says. Cool. Jim Lee didn't draw that X-Men anyway. No, Jim Lee didn't draw the X-Men. No, no. And Jim Lee's X-Men is pretty good. The art-wise. Fantastic. I do love it. Super, super good. Right? Super, super good. Is this from a different series? As action? Yeah. This is the Superman series. It's not action comics. Action comics is the original Superman series. Right? That came out in 1938. 1938 was the first action comics number one. And I believe Superman... Crack, crack me if I'm wrong. 1940 or 39, either a year or two years later Superman started. We can do a reverse calculation. Just do the math. This is 1945. Right? So this is number 37. And these would have come out every month. So 37 divided by 12. So we're talking... What is that? Times three is... So that's three years. Right? So 42? The Superman start in 42? There's a band called ISIS as well from way back. Oh, is there a crack? Oh, maybe that rings a bell as well. How's it hanging, Chichou? Felix doing well. Welcome, welcome. Haven't been on a live for a while. Glad to have you. And gang, don't forget. Free Assange, free Assange, free Assange. Julian Assange is a publisher and journalist that has been crucified for trying to bring transparency and accountability of capitalist power to humanity. For more information, see wikileaks.org, defend.wikileaks.org, or our Julian Assange wikileaks playlist on Sensor 2. Crack. Oh, geez. Sorry, Chichou. I didn't know much about Superman at all. You don't? Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. So Superman number one would have come out. I want to say 1939, but I guess it's going to be later, 1940s. This one is 1945, this issue. So gang, I want to have a sepiti. One year. One year later, Action Comics came out. Oh, Superman came out. 1939, okay, yeah. So 1939 is Superman series. Action Comics was 1938. Cool. Debs, how are you doing? Welcome to another live stream. So just one year later, and here's the price different. Action Comics number one, first appearance of Superman. Last one that I know of, 9.2 or 9 sold for 3.2 million. Okay, Superman number one in that grade sells for probably maybe pushing a million now, I believe. Okay, 1939 is what I got when doing a search. Okay, summer of 1939. Okay, awesome. Both June, so exactly a year later. Very cool. Gang, I'm going to turn off notifications. And gang, thank you for the follow-ups. Thank you for the subs. Apologies if I'm not catching them all and they won't be popping up on the screen. But I think we're just going to immerse ourselves in the reading. Okay, Danite, how are you doing? Welcome. Gang, I'm turning off the chat. We'll come back on after the reading. Okay, I'll keep my eyes on that chat as well. Just in case I misread stuff and whatnot. And I'm going to turn off this camera. Okay, now the sun is slowly shining. I'm going to take off my tuk because the sun is shining, it's getting hot. You're doing good, Danite. Awesome. Okay, how are we doing for time? About 30 minutes in. Hi, everyone. This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel. Welcome to another comic book reading. We are doing a reading for today. Livestream 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 sort of 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 5.5. So very good, fine, fine minus. And I will 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 it 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. Right? 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 Ed Dobrotka. Okay. George Rousseau, as I said, he done a lot of inking on this. Dan Carman, Stan Kay, 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, right? It's interesting. I'd love to sort of dig down into the golden age of comics a little bit more to last mural, 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 a battery on that thing, right? Which one of you's guys is cutie pie? Who's cutie pie? Maybe the guy with the red hat. Ever ready. What does that say? I'm focusing. There we go. Let's get the jab. Let's get the jab 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. Just coming out of World War II. Very cool. 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 grating, let's see what this will come back as, right? And tomorrow we're going to do some comic book gratings, and I'm not a professional grater, so we'll pull up the page from a website where they say what should be graded as what, and we'll see what we can do about it. Through this. What is this thing up here? B is for beaver who choose trees and bark. But when he's real chewy, he looks for this mark, a Superman publication. Batman. Batman. It's 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're talking back as, right? So six years, right? If it's coming once every, 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. DC Comic Magazine. Dr. Loretta 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. W. W. D. Dr. Dr. Professor of Education and Director of Circulation Study. University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Robert Thorn Dyke. Department of Educational Psychology. Teachers College. Columbia University. Calm. I don't know what calm would stand for. Calm. Gene. Tune. USNR. Worldwide Boxing Champion. Member Executive Board. New York Boy Scout Foundation. Wow. Commander, I guess. Commander Gene Tune. The following. Magazines. All bear the trademark. As you guarantee of the best in comic reading. Action Comics, Adventure Comics. All Funny Comics. Batman. Boy Commandos. 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 Number 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 25th 1940 at the Post Office at New York, New York under the act of March 3rd 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 & Company. 420 420 Lexington Avenue. New York New York 17 New York except those who have authorized authorized use of their names. The stories, characters and incidents mentioned in this pre-autocall 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 like a board of directors editorial advisory board like this, right? And this is pre comic code, right? 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. And there is there should be 4 stories in this. 3 main ones and a 2 pager. So let's take a look at this thing. It's weird. Just gonna give you this. Oh, there's the 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 the a dangerous dream. The second one is pranks for profit and then crime in the art studio and then the rubbish robbers, right? 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 mirror was 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 illimitable illimitable genius to steal to so difficult to read when the lines are going sideways where does it say but when the man of steel turns his illimitable genius to psychology in order to restore Johnny Frey's shattered moral 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 Zinks or says Frey came out of the hospital only two weeks ago after being wounded in a gun battle where 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 it's 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 the Valvet 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 this is nerve 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 fray I'm sorry Johnny terrible story Clark says is that a picture of himself in the background in a suit 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 let's run through this book and examine the stuff the dreams are made of that's where I was reading the book 500 pages reading time 10 seconds for Superman it's going to be some job 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 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 to bet some animal growling assuming it's supposed to be a wolf while inside the hut rouse suddenly from slumber is Johnny Fray that shriek it was like oh where am I what am I doing here this tent is vaguely familiar of course that picture of the interior of the explorers hut in the book I was reading before I fell asleep surely I'm dreaming but how real it seems that shriek again ayy 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 so far funny it doesn't seem like dreaming at all he just jumps under the wolf next the author used his rifle but this way to apply additional leverage to the dog's lead so that its 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 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 to bet 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 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 ah 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 hmm 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 so they 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, files his rifle 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 some 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 blind-sized Johnny and make some 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 fast was blowing the smoke back out to the bandits while down below cough choke can't stand this much longer 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 okay Johnny you don't have to worry about being yellow after that exhibition so it may as well but in now here comes Superman prancing pogodas pogodas Superman prancing pagodas what is that saying prancing pagodas 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 can't 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 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 Johnny says 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 my 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 in a hurry the velvet gang's cornered and well so long what a guy I'm certain Johnny's his old self again but how to prove it to him the velvet gang maybe I can prove it if I can decoy him there Clark's Clark things where it 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's story alright in pieces wow the guys Johnny's pissed short temper 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 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 and 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 then 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 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 okay so he's his temper's 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 and if he wants to play hero it's his business we stay here till it's dark police chiefs is that a mustache what as 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 oughta slow him up slow him 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 a thinking happening 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 he must have 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 when 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 it's hiding behind the machinery look at them scattering like a flock of billiard balls boom 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 took one guy down how many of them is there one, two, three, four, five maybe six maybe six of them so far anyway well there's a lot more looks like it okay he this will put the crusher on him so Johnny's way back here back there take a look there he has so there's how many one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight, nine and two 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 we're hashed throw it throw in the towel we're hashed throw in the towel look at this that kind of punch we're gonna take hands off superman and he's taking the joint apart the last shovel full of riffraff and I'll all be over and they're Tommy guns nice Tommy guns ow someone says let's see what Johnny's 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 I threw a scare into him so he lost his head and rushed in here I had to try to save him and you did all right too superman says 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 all right but where did he go I still want to see him Johnny says the way superman just took off his leg that's a funny posture 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 says 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 worked only took a 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 haha it's welcome it's welcome you'll be you'll be Johnny fray listen to the thrilling adventures of Superman on your local mutual station so that was what do you call it radio show Superman so Superman radio show I guess podcast what's this oh wow 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that's what you need and here's the prankster look at this guy 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 he can laugh at himself when the tables are turned well well and good but if he even faintly resembles that walking mount mount gang mount 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 do you 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 characters 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 are pretty rough for instance a alvin a alvin Arnol's you say you want a race Smith and you've been here 20 years sit down thank you Mr. Arnold he says you can have a $5 race Smith after you've had a let down in my new trick chair haha he puts on a prank chair and falls down some like Brewster Lynn the society's playboy will gladly take you to lunch but I doubt if you'd enjoy it atchoo smoke coming out of everywhere haha I switched salt salt sellers I switched salt sellers that was filled with sneeze powder what an a-hole and yet another dexter dreams for for example do the world the world the world yes indeed I bag these specimens in the heart of darkness darkest Africa at tremendous personal risk you don't say exhibit number 13 while bore stuff with self conceit the golden age jokes 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 Superman's 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 I escaped from prison so it is that A. Alvin Arnold receives a visit from an odd looking little man PR Ankster professor of practical jokes or so your cart says have a chair the guy says no thanks that's collapsing chair gag 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 wealthy and 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 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 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 thrown a party the rich fat cat the only one unaffected by the current Clark witnesses the start of one of the strangest robberies of all time this will go down in history as one of my most successful Jess that's the prankster Superman thinks or I'm not 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 these all this nonsense quite a card aren't you prankster Superman says Superman oh no he's dropping all his jewelry he's collected he's jumping out the window trying to escape Superman frankly I half expected you step outside 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 are 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 lane 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 rottenest 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 me and take care of her oh look at that my god what the 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 burned 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 lowest lane on fire ah lowest lane dummy wax dummy meanwhile hahaha nearest getaway I ever planned 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 look at his mustache now knowing how you dislike that phony big game hunter charmer's lay I thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane thought that tonight at your birthday party for mrs. Lane let's see what it is speaking of birthday parties here's Clark a little later shopping for a present for lowest jewelry 37 this is Superman number 37 right and there's 37 right there Superman 37 cool Easter egg Easter egg sort of not really Superman is 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 disguised prankster is about to follow suit prankster's thinking there's Clark Kent who has written so many uncomplimentary things about me since he's undoubtedly buying a present for the bothersome lowest 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 those lanes have a huge birthday party prankster's thinking here's my chance to switch the packages what's he going to do may I have the next dance Ms. Lane I asked her first she's surrounded by men Clark's in the background thinking I probably won't even get a hailing distance of her as usual Charmers Lane is busy telling heroic stories about himself and as the three tigers leaped I drew my hunting knife the other guys yawning knowing that this 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 Lay's prowess now if you'll step into the next room I'll show you the big game of Baghd you a big game hunter preposterous the guy says my trophy room ladies and gentlemen interesting if only you have some trophies the lay person I don't stuff them I bring them back alive and in cage and in case you're thinking of leaving lay the door you came in came in by is locked he's got tiger lion or polar bear a lion a bear a jaguar a jaguar the man is insane lion a bear and a jaguar okay I guess it's a jaguar oh Clark I'm afraid Lois Lane says so am I but I'm glad to note that you haven't forgotten me entirely why don't you do something heroic Lay what the guy is insane it may be a joke but I don't feel like laughing Clark says help police roar everybody's hiding on their tables a moment later Ajax Wild 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 that looks like something that's 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 rain down on a grinning villain thank you ladies and gentlemen you're very kind he says 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 merrrrrrr the guy says wait you promise 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 I swear 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 beings he's thinking I've got to get out and fast that window he's looking at the skylight I didn't mean to have things turn out this way he says Clark can't if you leave me here I'll never speak to you again Lewis says sorry Lewis but someone has to get help Clark's out the window out the skylight once outside Clark changes in a twinkling to Superman and meets a jeering foma 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 look at him swirling his mustache laugh why you're able prankster you won't be away far away by the time I finish this little this little chore a split second later so Clark Kent wasn't kidding when he went down the street yelling that a angry was loose in here Superman I was hoping you'd come I thought you never would that's Lewis's silhouette saying that I was hoping you'd come I thought you never would a mountain of bone and muscle hurls towards the man of steel playful fellow isn't he careful Superman a scene 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 high above the city Superman'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 that's prankster in his car only Superman could do that I better get out of sight fast there's Superman thinking got him worried now but I'm not through yet away he isn't following me I only get to 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 excited over a simple little gift from that reporter let's see there's a prank in there prankster is prank suddenly wonder what's inside 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 I'll be hanged if Superman hasn't caught the prankster drool isn't it hahaha 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 you'll make a great story for the daily planet if it's true I don't know how you newspaper lies find out things so fast but you can see for yourself who's hanging around look at prankster he's still laughing totally insane totally insane the next minute word on Superman's hunt for the prankster what 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 think you'd have enough of prank practical jokes Superman doesn't know what's going on Clark Kent doesn't prankster's laughing hahaha I always manage to have the last laugh hahaha that's like the Joker in a weird way it'll be your 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 40s 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 Volto Volto from Mars Volto another cereal Volto from Mars Volto is out of this world magnetic powers conquer a fury inferno the origins of the great north west save Jimmy save Jimmy and the junior rangers from a tragic fate so little story so Joker was 1940 Aldergaard 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 all takes him up to Mars great nut flakes prankster was 1942 Aldergaard was doing checks for us 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 the browning happening and how 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 have we got left here we've got another story of Lois Lane and this is we've got 2 more stories we've got 2 more stories still I think we're not going to get a chance to read these look at the artwork and that's pretty nice 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 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 I don't know 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 you know 20 or 30 times he says I'd have to see that first to believe it ok then follow me there he is barber ok 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 smarty right funny people like to laugh all funny buying comic books screen comics I don't know screen comics screen comics leading comics buzzy and all funny comics cool 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 as they say here's another advertisement for weedies look at this one superman garage the rubbish robbers the story is the rubbish robbers the lowest lane the 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 ok the pencils by Ed Dubrotka and the inks by Stan K again how many pages was this I believe this was 52 pages yeah 52 page magazine right from 1945 look at all the seriously because he'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 is doing a sketch of the guy lots of dialogue lots of sketchy people like mobsters and gangsters look at that sketchy as hell look at that 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 my can what is this rescued the doomed liner bazooka joe's bazooka joe's what is this these are shoes I guess are these shoes with his magic bazooka bazooka shoes so it's a shoe advertisement shoes can make you a hero too whoosh look at him go whoo if only you would buy shoes like that thumb my can boys make sure your shoes are thumb my cans 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 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 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 along cool cool super men of America secret message oh you got to decipher the secret messages okay you cold breakers you can have a snapshot of this and decipher the secret message whatever that says superman's secret message cold saturn number 5 okay 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 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 two 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 by monthly I don't know why I didn't know that or I didn't remember that so superman comics published by monthly right so magazine format really okay aside from that we'll be back we've got more comics to read in a future 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 notifications where is the video fun that was a fun read some of the same having a hard time trying to get the feel for them like the words and the sequence of words that we're using it was throwing me off in the reading very trippy very trippy 1945 superman seriously wow wow right out of so World War II ended in 1945 but I can't remember which which years so World War II would have already been ended because this is November December 1945 so World War II would have already ended which is cool very cool so this is the type of reading there were still battles many battles I believe was going on trying to clear off the islands in the pacific so there was and obviously on the eastern block there was a lot of chaos going on but officially World War II had already ended and Hiroshima Nagasaki had already happened interesting gang let's call the stream just a footnote I'm gonna go to the post office after this and pick up a comic book haul that came in so I might do a comic book haul later on today Speedy Gonzales style there's two of them there's one package here already that I was going to crack open but I didn't okay and I was waiting for this one and this one's already arrived if it was going to arrive any later than today I was going to crack open the other one so I think we're going to do a comic book haul soonish I'm going to go to the post office grab something to eat get set up and it'll be quick it'll be like a half an hour comic book haul okay there's only four comic books maybe 45 minute comic book haul okay I'm sorry if I can't narrow down the time but stay tuned great stream Shijo thank you my 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