Superman #123

Superman #123

Superman Sunday takes us back to the Silver Age and the first appearance of Super-Girl (but not the one who you might expect). “The Girl of Steel” is the first of three stories in the comic. Although the look of Super-Girl would be used for later variations of the character, this version is not Kal-El‘s cousin from Krypton. Instead the character sprung to life from Jimmy Olsen making a magic wish on an ancient artifact Superman guilted an archeologist into giving his best friend. Oh, the Silver Age.

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Zorro – Presenting Señor Zorro

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Zorro - Presenting Señor Zorro

As Amazon Prime debuts a new Zorro series, Flashback Friday takes a look back at Walt Disney’s classic series of the late 1950s featuring the adventures of Zorro fighting injustice in the early 19th Century. After three years abroad Don Diego de la Vega (Guy Williams) returns to California from Spain along with his mute man-servant Bernardo (Gene Sheldon). On the ship back, Diego learns the trouble arising in his home comes from the ruthless Commandante Capitán Monastario (Britt Lomond) and chooses to not return as the worldly adventurer and swordfighter but instead a boorish aristocrat who could not possibly be seen as a threat. Don Alejandro de la Vega (George J. Lewis) is disheartened by his son’s disinterest in local troubles, but Diego keeps up the charade for everyone he meets choosing instead to take action later that night while wearing a mask.

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