I'm Sure This Will Disappoint Sue

[Sue U]

Green Hornet?

[Big RR]

Phyllis Coates was Lois Lane during the first season (or first two) of the Adventures of Superman, later replaced by Noel Neill. When she was Lois, the show was a bit grittier and a bit more serious; it later seemed to be played more for laughs.

Does that make me an old fart?

[Sue U]

Phyllis Coates was Lois Lane during the first season (or first two) of the Adventures of Superman, later replaced by Noel Neill. When she was Lois, the show was a bit grittier and a bit more serious; it later seemed to be played more for laughs.

Does that make me an old fart?

I'm pretty sure we all got it with Jim's not-very-subtle hint. (My next "guess" was going to be "Hitler?" This is, after all, the internets.)

And yes, you are. Not that it's a bad thing ...

[Lord Jim]

Phyllis Coates was Lois Lane during the first season (or first two) of the Adventures of Superman, later replaced by Noel Neill.

We have a winner!



I'm glad we didn't have to move on to Peggy Cass...

[Lord Jim]

George must not have had his muscle suit on for that pic....

He looks scrawny...

[Lord Jim]

I'll tell you the thing I never got about Superman....

His costume....

Supposedly, it was sewn together by Ma Kent from the blankets he was wrapped in when his parents Jor-El and Lara sent him to Earth from Krypton....

How did she manage sew indestructible extra terrestrial material with a lousy 1936 Singer Sew Master? ?

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'll tell you the thing I never got about Superman....

His costume....

Supposedly, it was sewn together by Ma Kent from the blankets he was wrapped in when his parents Jor-El and Lara sent him to Earth from Krypton....

How did she manage sew indestructible extra terrestrial material with a lousy 1936 Singer Sew Master? ?

No reality please.

[Gob]

You don't get quality sewing machines like that any more.

[Big RR]

I'll tell you the thing I never got about Superman....

His costume....

Supposedly, it was sewn together by Ma Kent from the blankets he was wrapped in when his parents Jor-El and Lara sent him to Earth from Krypton....

How did she manage sew indestructible extra terrestrial material with a lousy 1936 Singer Sew Master? ?

In the comics, I think she used a needle made of kryptonite, which can pierce the cloth.

[Rick]

In the comics, I think she used a needle made of kryptonite, which can pierce the cloth.

And Kryptonite scissors.

And cotton thread...

[loCAtek]

Well, comic science these days says the cloth isn't indestructible, per se. As a Kryptonian, Superman emits a force-field that enables him to fly and protect whatever he touches, like his clothes and Lois Lane, while he carries her. Otherwise, friction alone, from his high speeds and the air would cause combustion.

[rubato]

Yeah, Superman was always so fake-y and implausible.

That's why my hero was Spiderman! Getting bitten by a radioactive spider could really happen.

yrs,
rubato

[Big RR]

Well, comic science these days says the cloth isn't indestructible, per se. As a Kryptonian, Superman emits a force-field that enables him to fly and protect whatever he touches, like his clothes and Lois Lane, while he carries her. Otherwise, friction alone, from his high speeds and the air would cause combustion.

When he was flying fast before, he used to wrap the person he was carrying in his cape to protect them.

[Rick]

Yeah, Superman was always so fake-y and implausible.

That's why my hero was Spiderman! Getting bitten by a radioactive spider could really happen.

yrs,
rubato

I was bitten by a radioactive spider.

It was a black widow.

I died...

[Lord Jim]

I died...

I take it you got better....

[@meric@nwom@n]

Chiming in for the fart brigade: I seem to recall Ma Kent having Clark use his heat vision to do the cutting of threads while she was sewing. In a comic book that is, not on the show.

[@meric@nwom@n]

Someone else recalls that too.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 928AAobCox

There are two versions; the original costume was indestructible because it was from Krypton and everything from Krypton was indestructible. The original costume was made from his baby blankets that his mother wrapped him in for the voyage, and Ma Kent UNRAVELLED them, because they were knitted. She she was able to knit them with ordinary knitting needles.

She had to trick baby Kal-El into using his heat vision to burn through the yarn when she wanted to cut it. (Kind of the same way he later used his heat vision and a mirror to shave.)

This way, she made separate pants, shirt and cape. Please note; Superman doesn't wear his underwear over his pants. That is just a decorative design, and so he can have pockets. (Otherwise he would have to wear a utility belt to carry cash to pay for the windows his sonic boom breaks when he flies at super speed, etc.)

[loCAtek]

A lot of that has been updated, it's cooler to see Superman's costume take some battle damage;




...they say that occurs when he tires and his force-field weakens, letting the cloth get torn.


Once, in Superman #75 (vol. 2, January 1993), the physical and costume damage was so extensive, it was believed that he had died from his injuries;

[Big RR]

Thanks @W, I don't recall that, but it's interesting. Of course, I've never seen knitted material looking like the suit, but then reality is not the strong suit of the comics. FWIW, I think his boots were made from some material that lined the capsule he came to earth in.