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[Yuda]

Everyone always talks about Rao - but what about Yuda, mistress of the moons?


Yuda, mistress of the moons and "sweet mother of Rao"

We've started a new entry in the Superman Encyclopedia for Great Rao.

Hopefully it will be expanded.

In our never-ending efforts to catch up with the 21st century, we finally have an SSL certificate installed.  As a result, the forum has now moved to

https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/forum

However, it appears that the software running this forum has gotten really old at some point in the past few years...

In testing things out, we have discovered that the registration button for new members (along with some other board javascript) is disabled!

I suspect this is because the Javascript code has become outdated, but we are still investigating the cause, and it could be an SSL issue.

So.

While we repair things, if you would like to register for this forum, please send your desired username and your email address to us using the contact details here, and we will set up your account manually.

I apologize for the inconvenience.  It is, hopefully, short lived.

[Superman Through the Ages!!]

Hi everybody!

We finally have a secure SSL certificate for Superman Through the Ages!!

All the super-friends and super-family here at Superman Through the Ages! are busy updating the site and moving things around to use the new, secure certificate for our all-new domain name, supermanthroughtheages.com!

I am super thrilled!

I really can't believe we've never used this domain name before!  All I can say is: it's about time, and it's an added bonus that we will finally have a secure forum and a secure website - but only when accessed by the new domain name supermanthroughtheages.com

Anyway, please bear with us and I hope you will tolerate the occasional missing image or broken link as we zip along.

We will be done in super-speed!

Thank you!

Oh, one more thing: Regarding this forum. Instead of being located at forum.superman.nu it is now securely located at https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/forum

Your username and password that you used at forum.superman.nu will continue to work under this new location, but your browser will no longer automatically fill them in. Don't worry! I'm sure you already know that you can easily look up the username and password that your browser has saved, and just re-enter them again at www.supermanthroughtheages.com/forum. And this time, they will be transmitted securely!

Email from this forum has been broken for quite a while, so password reset reminders won't be sent out. Rest assured that fixing the forum email is on our vast list of current chores, as is updating the forum software itself.

But all in good time!

Hi.

A quick update:

I just wanted to let people know that I did receive the finished artwork for page 23 a few years back, but production got put on hold due to a hard crash-and-burn of the K-Metal hard drive.  This drive had all of the past K-Metal pages, artwork, promotional material, templates, etc - and most importantly, the K-Metal font which is needed for lettering.

If data recovery efforts succeed, and enough data remains on what remains of the drive platter, I'll be able to finish up the page.

Here's a peak -

Any  opinions on the latest big-screen Superman costume?



I like the return of the red trunks, unless that already happened somewhere else and I missed it...

 

Wow, the Fortress hasn't changed a bit since the last time I visited four years ago.  Wish I could say the same for myself.  It's a struggle just to get out of bed now, let alone trudge across the Artic wastes and climb up to the doorway with a birthday cake.  Nearly forgot my access code again.  I don't think I'll be able to make it the next time February 29 rolls around.

Time to light the candles, perhaps for my last time.  "Happy Birthday, Kal-El... and thank you."

I've been meaning to write this for quite a while: In the early 2000s my (now late) oldest brother gave me, (along with my copies of "Secret Agent X-9: The Alex Raymond Collection" and "Batman from the '30s to the '70s", which he had borrowed 20 years before), the then-recently-published book named above. I was no longer a comic book fan, having lost this interest to Shakespeare, world history, and baseball analysis, but I did collect them in my early late teens and early twenties--my favorites then were Batman, an interest engendered by the TV show, and the LoSH, but I largely forgot about them after moving out of my parents' house.

Oddly, I had occasional, recurrent, vivid dreams of finding a store on Chapel Street in downtown New Haven (no, I'm not a Yalie) that sold old comics, probably based on a used bookstore I frequented on Whitney Avenue where I bought some when I was 21. As the years progressed, so did the dreams, moving from frustration at not being able to successfully purchase comics, to gradual, eventual, success. I also had a recurrent static dream of sneaking into someone's treehouse/clubhouse to find comic books and no one to bother me while I read them.

So, "Superman in the Sixties". I didn't like it.

This is not a fun book. The 2 longest stories are "The Last Days of Superman", in which (SPOILER WARNING, with lots more to follow) Superman suffers immensely from Kryptonite poisoning throughout while believing something called "Virus X" is killing him, and "Superman's Returns to Krypton", in which circumstances trap him on his original home planet right before it's due to explode and kill everyone he meets (his parents; actress Lyla Lerrol, with whom he conducts a necessarily doomed love affair). Fun stuff.

The opener, which is, logically enough, "The Story of Superman's Life", was OK, but the chaser, "The Last Days of Ma and Pa Kent", tells how Supes' beloved step-parents die of a tropical disease which frustrates all his efforts to save them--this is only the second story in and already we're knee-deep in tragedy.

Others include "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy", in which Supes encourages Americans to exercise more at the behest of JFK, whom artist Al Plastino depicts in the splash as a giant smiling-but-spectral figure of the then-freshly-murdered president, and "The Sweetheart that Superman Forgot", which chronicles another doomed relationship with a woman whom our hero meets while suffering from amnesia, said woman last seen weeping over his presumed death (it's a long story), while he bitterly regrets never having found Ms. Right. Oh, and don't forget "Superman's Super-Courtship", which details more romantic swings-and-a-miss with the misses, (in one case, a Missus), and "The Impossible Mission", wherein Superboy fails to save the life of Abraham Lincoln.

There are more uplifting Superman stories here: Edmond Hamilton's "The Showdown between Luthor and Superman", Leo Dorfman's "The Superman-Batman Revenge Squads", a few others, but a lot of these are just major downers, the kind a chronic depressive like me rarely read comics for--comics (says Bully) (it's a website) should be fun!

So, a few years later (2006), when I asked myself what I could buy at the newly opened local Borders Bookstore that would just give me joy, I realized it was comic books. Then I discovered that DC was reprinting most of their '60s stuff and I started collecting them: Showcase Presents JLA, Metamorpho, Green Lantern.
But not Superman. He was kind of a pill.

Six months later, while theretofore fruitlessly browsing, wondering what to get next, I decided to give in and give "Showcase Presents: Superman Volume 1" a try.
"Hey, these stories are fun!"
So I bought the second volume, and "Showcase Presents: Supreman Family", and "Superman in the Fifties" and "SP:Superman 3". And I realized that I was now a big fan and started looking for websites where I could discuss these with other fans (I was on the internet now) and discovered STTA, and here we are; gotta make dinner, no more time to talk, just wanted to get this done, before I did.

Same here. If there's any mysterious event in the neighborhood, my wife checks Facebook to see what it was. Our scout troop has a webpage, but it's rarely updated; my wife tells me what's going on because she saw it on Facebook.

90% of the blogs I used to enjoy are dormant or offline now because Facebook is easier for the owners, and reaches more people.  Local businesses that once had to hire web designers to build them a webpage now just start a Facebook page.

Meanwhile my typical web browsing session involves visits to less than five sites, and I'm the last to hear about anything.  But hey, when there's something *good* to hear, maybe I'll regret the arrangement.

True. But is it possible to interact with other human beings without it?

In my town, the schools, the police, the fire department, and the town offices all make their announcements on Facebook.  Is school canceled due to inclement weather?  Check Facebook.  Is there a water main break in town? It is announced on Facebook. Town meeting livestream is on Facebook. Scout troop schedule and updates are posted to Facebook. etc, etc, etc.

A very sorry state of affairs.