I'll bet Clark was using his X-Ray vision to look at something other than her purse when he happend upon that shopping list. I remember reading this comic in the 80s taken from a massive pile of mouldering DC Silver age stuff that was just dumped at a relatives house.
Ok, getting a massive pile of DC silver age comics while visiting relatives actually sounds tremendously fun. I'll bet you had a blast reading through them.
Krypto is well known; Beppo the Super Monkey was a test subject of Jor-El who got into Kal-El's ship at the last minute and traveled to Earth with him and escaped upon landing; Streaky was a pet belonging to Supergirl that she experimented on, trying to find a way to neutralize kryptonite. She synthesized X-Kryptonite, which had the property of permanently bestowing super powers on the cat; As for Comet, he is a centaur from ancient Greece, cursed by Circe to be a horse, albeit a horse with super powers. When a comet passes above the earth, the spell is temporarily broken and he becomes a human being, sans super powers. He is in love with Supergirl (that is a bit awkward and distasteful). Out of all the super pets, only Krypto and Beppo are affected by kryptonite, as they are the only Kryptonians. The other two are immune, despite having the same powers. Later on, Proty II, a shapeshifting lump of telepathic protoplasm, the pet of Chameleon Boy, would join their ranks. The original Proty gave his (its) life to restore Lightning Lad to life (saving Saturn Girl, who it was in love with, seemingly a reoccurring theme), though it was later revealed that it had not actually returned him to life so much as transferred it's essence into Lightning Lad's dead body and taken his place, using its telepathic powers to compensate for any memory loss. The new Proty/Lad would go on to marry Saturn Girl and produce children with her. And strangely, she being a telepath knew. Oy!
You really know your stuff. The only one I really don't have much knowledge of is Beppo. I've already recorded but not yet published the origin of Streaky. I agree that Comet is a bit disturbing once you get into his backstory and I will get to him eventually. I'm up to Proty II although I'm not sure if I published it yet. DC recently released a single issue comic of the Legion of Super-Pets. Maybe I'll show it on here eventually.
Comet the Super Horse has come back in more modern stories. Krypto has had many appearances, including at least one modern animated series.
I think nowadays the usage of the super pets are in non-canonical stories. I'm not sure if they exist in the official DCU.
I'll bet Clark was using his X-Ray vision to look at something other than her purse when he happend upon that shopping list. I remember reading this comic in the 80s taken from a massive pile of mouldering DC Silver age stuff that was just dumped at a relatives house.
Ok, getting a massive pile of DC silver age comics while visiting relatives actually sounds tremendously fun. I'll bet you had a blast reading through them.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime I did and re-reading them for the next decade until they literally disintegrated.
Krypto is well known; Beppo the Super Monkey was a test subject of Jor-El who got into Kal-El's ship at the last minute and traveled to Earth with him and escaped upon landing; Streaky was a pet belonging to Supergirl that she experimented on, trying to find a way to neutralize kryptonite. She synthesized X-Kryptonite, which had the property of permanently bestowing super powers on the cat; As for Comet, he is a centaur from ancient Greece, cursed by Circe to be a horse, albeit a horse with super powers. When a comet passes above the earth, the spell is temporarily broken and he becomes a human being, sans super powers. He is in love with Supergirl (that is a bit awkward and distasteful). Out of all the super pets, only Krypto and Beppo are affected by kryptonite, as they are the only Kryptonians. The other two are immune, despite having the same powers. Later on, Proty II, a shapeshifting lump of telepathic protoplasm, the pet of Chameleon Boy, would join their ranks. The original Proty gave his (its) life to restore Lightning Lad to life (saving Saturn Girl, who it was in love with, seemingly a reoccurring theme), though it was later revealed that it had not actually returned him to life so much as transferred it's essence into Lightning Lad's dead body and taken his place, using its telepathic powers to compensate for any memory loss. The new Proty/Lad would go on to marry Saturn Girl and produce children with her. And strangely, she being a telepath knew. Oy!
You really know your stuff. The only one I really don't have much knowledge of is Beppo. I've already recorded but not yet published the origin of Streaky. I agree that Comet is a bit disturbing once you get into his backstory and I will get to him eventually. I'm up to Proty II although I'm not sure if I published it yet. DC recently released a single issue comic of the Legion of Super-Pets. Maybe I'll show it on here eventually.
@@DCSilverAgeStorytime Thanks; the advantage of growing up in the 60's.