In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to January 1949, to see DC get really into Hollywood, with Superman teaming up with a real life movie mermaid and a brand-new DC comic book about movie stars. There is a sort of general stereotype in popular fiction about the small-time executive of some kind who gets lured into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, and gets taken advantage in the process. There’s a great bit in the classic Season 7 Simpsons episode, “Radioactive Man,” about how the small town Springfieldians took advantage of the idealistic Hollywood filmmakers who just wanted to make a movie that is obviously a play on the fact that the OPPOSITE is what had become a standard trope in popular culture.I certainly don’t want to suggest that DC wasn’t ALWAYS interested in Hollywood, of course, as they had been doing movie tie-in comic books for a number of years (like this comic book adaptation of the film, Tomorrow – The World! from 1945), but I think it’s still notable that around 1949, they really started to lean into guest stars in the Superman comic books that were real life movie stars.
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to January 1949, to see DC get really into Hollywood, with Superman teaming up with a real life movie mermaid and a brand-new DC comic book about movie stars.
There is a sort of general stereotype in popular fiction about the small-time executive of some kind who gets lured into the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, and gets taken advantage in the process. There’s a great bit in the classic Season 7 Simpsons episode, “Radioactive Man,” about how the small town Springfieldians took advantage of the idealistic Hollywood filmmakers who just wanted to make a movie that is obviously a play on the fact that the OPPOSITE is what had become a standard trope in popular culture.
I certainly don’t want to suggest that DC wasn’t ALWAYS interested in Hollywood, of course, as they had been doing movie tie-in comic books for a number of years (like this comic book adaptation of the film, Tomorrow – The World! from 1945), but I think it’s still notable that around 1949, they really started to lean into guest stars in the Superman comic books that were real life movie stars.
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