Poll Position: Is your secret safe?

At first I was going to ask "Let's say Clark Kent has to die, what secret identity would you want to see Superman take on?" but then I ended up going more general instead:

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Random Panel: The Batmobile it ain’t

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(From "The Blue Beetle" number 13, 1942.)

Random Panel: The education of Country Boy

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(From "Amazing Man" number 19, 1941.)

Random Panel: I don’t think that’s how Chameleon does it …

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(From "Amazing Man" number 19, 1941.)

META: Site back up

Sorry about that, the site was down all day but should be back up now. Joy. There was some MySQL problem blah blah blah, hopefully the tech guys at UGO can make a change on the back end to make sure it doesn't happen again next time.

META: Open thread

Because I got nothin'. Talk about whatever you like folks, I'm off to an actual real-people, not-online party. Craziness! And yet, apparently this sort of thing is not only legal but encouraged. Strange.

Random Panel: Bad gangs to fall prey to

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(From "Amazing Man" number 19, 1941.)

Hammerknight’s weapons

(Thanks once again to Hammerknight for putting together this how-to sheet. Click on the image to see it at its original full size.)

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Random Panel: Hamlet and Yorrick, after the curtain falls

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(From "Amazing Man" number 16, 1940.)

Cowardly indeed

Excuse me, Mister Starfinger sir? Black Manta called and wants his clothes back:

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You would think that with the benefit of eleven centuries of advancements, a super-villain fighting the Legion would be able to do better than ripping off a lame Aquaman foe's look. But you'd be wrong.

The shame of it is, I always loved Black Manta's costume. Dude was seriously bad-ass, with that menacing saucer-head and evil fish-eye thing goin' on ... he was so much cooler than the pumpkin-clad Aquaman, I used to root for the bad guy to win.

But so blatantly stealing another guy's mojo is just lame. According to his writeup, "Starfinger possesses no known powers of his own, and is a poor combatant." Given that, perhaps outright fashion theft is understandable.

Less clear is why he'd also steal The Michelin Man's horizontal bands of bloat, but perhaps we'd better just leave well enough alone.

(Character and image © DC Comics, Inc.)