Superman Taunts Dying "Friends" In The Desert
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2025
- It's time to discover the tale behind yet another classic DC comics cover. Hailing from the late silver age we have Superman's Pal Jimmy Olen 115, and the infamous cover of Superman refusing water to Jimmy Olsen and Aquaman. Can the story possibly match up to this meme worthy cover? Find out here on Casually Comics!
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All Hail Aqua Jimmy?
Drinking sea water is very bad as well 🙂
Wouldn’t be the Silver Age if every other month Jimmy didn’t have transformation fatigue!
Speaking of cover nastiness, sill curious about the one where the Atom is putting a beat down on~~the Atom!?!
All Hail the NODICAL NEWSHOUND!!!
Long live King Jimmy! That's a full 12 cents worth of value right there! 😄
Cover suggestion : DC COMICS PRESENTS vol 1 issue 26 It has Hal/GL Either Holding or Forming a Large Chunk of Green Kryptonite above Clark/ Superman’s Head with a Big Yellow Cloud that has a Demonic Face behind Hal 🖖🏾
"Hey, I'm Jimmy Olsen, I just became biologically Atlantean about an hour ago. My friend dragged your head of state to the desert, where he perspired to death. Because I've shown the ability to not die as quickly in the most arid place on Earth, that qualifies me to rule the wettest place on Earth". That would be extremely difficult not to interpret as an act or war, let alone a legitimately recognized regime change. But knowing Atlantis, that exact set of circumstances is probably in their Constitution.
Oh dragging them out into the desert! that is much faster than our method of tying them up by their feet and having them drip dry to death
superman just don't care mate.
By this point they probably have a clause for Death by Kryptonian Death Game that allows the game to automatically select the new leader.
@@PosthumanHeresy lol
The batman vs superman film would have made more sense if Batman used these events as justification.
I just realized Homelander was probably given a bunch of Silver Age Superman comics when he was growing up in the lab and took that as a blueprint for how to behave.
This is most likely true, Homelander is basically that Superman
And vought would think they're harmless, campy, silly stories without understanding the dark undertones.
Also, you ever notice how similar superboy (conner kent) and homelander are?
Both are created from a giant company, both were created to be great heroes that are super marketable, and both want attention and love from the public.
Homelander is just if superboy never escaped and fully grew up.
@@ProjektTaku and if he was a total bitch.
That’s actually a interesting thought lol
He never read the pages, just the covers
Jimmy looks like a red headed Namor in this issue. And by the way he acts in some issues, he may as well be Namor
okay… so it wasn’t just me who noticed that🤣
Imperius Golly!
IDK, does Jimmy say 'golly? It's a stretch, I know. Why couldn't it have been Lex?
@@Leadeshipcoach it MUST have been intentional.
Imagine poor Reed having to compete with _Jimmy_ for Sue’s affections! 😂
@@DrFranklynAnderson 🤣🤣👍
On the one hand, it's nice that they acknowledge the "Search for Mera" plotline that was going on in Aquaman's book at the time. On the other hand, it makes Aquaman look even more vain and self-centered. "Sorry, honey, I know you're missing and all, but I have to take time out to have a 'fin-measuring' contest with this punk kid with the freckles. I'll go look for you later."
aquaman has fragile aquaculinity
6:45 - I've always hated these cop-out endings from the Silver Age stories.
Superman "mercifully" stranding some person or creature on a desolate uninhibited planet to "live out their days in peace"... Oh you mean go insane or starve to death. Good job hero.
I like to imagine Superman fully intended to kill that man and this is the only way he could get away with it without violating the Comics Code.
@@nathanl8622 and that's all well and good for that one example. But there are other examples of Superman relocating some harmless living sentient creature. And we know full well it's going to die horribly. It's always just been something that's been upsetting to me
@@orinanime superman won't kill you, but he will relocate you to place where your going to die.
@@orinanime well this time it's a creature that won't die.
And I don't know of any other examples but I'll presume that there's some reason they won't either.
And if they go insane, so what, there's no one else around. They had a good run. Of crashing ships and killing people.
Lmao
Natasha: “it’s only one person who can use eels as a ladder… Aquaman”
B'wana Beast: Hey, I could do that too… man everyones always forgetting about B'wana Beast, I get no respect lol
I mean we certainly respected him in the Brave and the Bold cartoon
@@benwasserman8223 he died a true hero.
That cemented his legacy for me.
@@benwasserman8223 I Really loved him in that series!
Damn Superman must be an arse if they didn't suspect anyhting here: calling out Arthur on Mera's wife, taunting Jimmy and Arthur, not phased by Arthur's death. I hate to think what Arthur would think Superman would respond to the death of Aquababy.
I too jate about that thought.
I love how superman just gets to decide that aqua man is no longer a king on a whim. Like imagine if he forced jimmy to be considered president after he won a game of tennis against the president. Actually superman having jimmy defeat various rulers until he becomes overlord of the world could be an interesting story.
The giveaway that it wasn’t Superman should have been the idea that he would ever give Jimmy Olsen the opportunity to live in the same body of water as Lori Lemaris.
lol, lori lemaris is the best superman girl!
@@ProjektTaku This is a fact!
@@BThings legit imagine what their child would be like.
LORI FOREVER!
Aqua Jimmy? No no no. That’s H2 Olsen
I remember what bothered me the most when I read this issue back in the day was that while the bi-monthly _Aquaman_ was covering Aquaman’s ceaseless search for his missing wife day after day facing peril after peril, Jimmy Olsen’s editor felt that is was fine to “borrow” Aquaman for this slapdash story and just imply that Aquaman is no longer obsessed with finding Mera. He’s taking a break, cuz why not?
Imagine in a modern story they reveal that the old man is still there on that planet, having lived through all the crisis's
lol that would be so rips!
A cover about thirst but with no Lois in sight? *Le gasp*
There needs to be a Jimmy Crisis in DC. All the silver age multiverse superpowered Jimmys attack. It'd make more sense than alternate Batmans...
"The Invasion of the Million Jimmys!"
How about "The World of 1000 Olsens"?
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Or "The World of Doomed Olsens"?
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Yes
Guest starring Psycho-pirate? :)
All fear the Jimmy Who Laughs!
I think Jimmy knows it's Aquaman, not because only he has the powers to makes eels into a ladder but rather that only Aqua-man would make sub survivors climb rather than calling large creatures for people to ride.
5:13 So what you're saying is *" He's dead, Jim!"*
Personally, I think they wasted a golden opportunity to call this story 'Survival of the Fin-nest."
A better cheer…2,4,6,8! Let’s see who’ll asphyxiate!!!
More people need to be talking about all of those time in the 1930's when Superman hated cars
And slums
I'm surprised at how we just took such things in stride when I was a kid- "Superman's a jerk?! Cool, let's check it out!" Ah, fun times. Also, Aqua Jimmy just has to learn how to Aquaboogie from Mr Wiggles the Worm, giving you a bump by bump rundown at the wide, wide world of wiggling.
Thanks for inspiring a P-Funk playlist this evening.
🎶 “Never learned to swimmmm…” 🎶
With friends like Silver Age Superman, who need Super Villains?
Not gonna lie, those silver age Neal Adams cover were major clickbait.
Jimmy Olsen the Sub-Photographer
"This is how you know your life is too eventful: When being swallowed by a whale is only worthy of a sitcom-level joke..." 😛
The Aquaman one is my second favorite vintage "superdickery" entry.
My favorite? *Robin--* What have I done to you?
AquaJimmy sounds like a P-Funk record.
The other day I dug up my ancient copy of Jimmy Olsen #159 wherein a dicey diamond called the Star of Cathay continues sending Jimmy on special journeys , that time to Republican Rome where Jimmy leads a slave rebellion as Spartacus , presumably personally killing many Romans . It's an ongoing tale that may reveal the true identity of an elderly woman from Jimmy's actual past . Thrilling stuff that still can't compare to what Jack Kirby had in store for Jimmy not to long after that .
Everyone: omg What if Superman were evil?!?
Silver age Superman: :)
The sad truth, Silver Age Aquaman is the inferior ocean based superhero to Jimmy Olson
I like Lex Luthor boxing Superman under a red sun better.
I'd love to see this made into a two-part animated short. Have DC release this online for free just for the lulz.
Not him banning Dessert lmao.
Ah I see hand your kingdom to some random new guy after your old ruler died. Atlantis operates on Arendelle rules.
This is the kind of Evil Superman I actually like 😂
"WhoCanEvadeSufficationTheLongest?Theywillbekingofthesea."
I spit out my drink! 🤣That delivery!
A duel to the death…
A dry to the death?
A draught to the death?
Man silver age Superman had a real link for gaslighting and screwing with his “friends.”
Wait, I thought Aquaman could only telepathically talk with sea creatures, are they implying that Jimmy is part fish?
Well, he was part turlte that one time.
@@estanislaojosegadea8253 true
The old man was definitely in character for silver age Superman. With all the evil Supermen knocking around the multiverse silver age Superman would easily be best of them.
"Superdickery" is now my new favorite word.
I would love to see a live action Superman / Jimmy relationship where they are just wickedly cruel to each other.
The whale that ate Jonah looks good for it's age and good old 60s villains, bring AquaJimmy and Aquaman back to the ocean instead of leaving them in the desert
We know Jimmy would've kept his powers if his Mom was named Martha... LoL
AquaJimmy slightly above WerewolfJimmy
Just imagining Jimmy and Aquamans conversation when “Superman” wasn’t around.
AM: Great Grunions! My ability to talk with fish is of NO help!
JO: (rolls eyes and sighs) Oh. Wow.
AM: Putting us in peril for a contest! That doesn’t seem like Superman at all! The taunting, sure, but…
JO: You’ve met his girlfriend, right? ANY of his girlfriends?
AM: (long pause)
We’re gonna die out here, aren’t we….?
Catch up episodes have been great as usual. More JSA/Earth-Two/PG/Huntress and Legion of Super-Heroes please!
I so enjoyed those stories back in the day! I would love to see you do a segment on when Alfred was first killed and turned into the outsider!
And Alfred SWORE he wouldn’t be caught dead in those speedos…!
Yeah, hardly anyone remembers he died and then came back because the Batman TV show wanted him in it.
I find that storyarc particularly interesting since an issue of Justice League later revealed Alfred brainwashed Zatanna to act like a stereotypical witch to torment Batman and Robin.
Alas, Aquaman stood no chance. For Aqua Jimmy has no ceiling!
What the comic said:
"Aquaman... son of a lighthouse keeper and a water breathing woman from Atlantis...."
What my dumb brain understood:
"Aquaman. He's the son of a lighthouse keeper. And also he's a water-breathing woman from Atlantis."
Wait, WHAT??
I saw the thumbnail and all i can think seeing the text is
"Women like winners jimmy"
Jerk Superman is the Superman for me!
I really want the Daily Planet to casually employ an Atlantean as an actual nautical newshound now
To be fair, I wouldn't have any trouble believing that Silver Age Clark would do that just for kicks.
Also, I'm curious, does Aquaman refer to his family as his mer-kin?
oi...
I've read this one. Found a tattered copy in the basement of my grandparents acreage when I was a kid. It was one of only like six comics there, including an issue of Magnus: Robot Fighter, Casper and Wendy, and a few Archie.
Neal Adams can make dumbest things look super cool
You simply cannot go too overboard on this topic.
If Jimmy really had become the new Aquaman, I think that I would have to The Flash to move me from Earth Prime! 😂😁
I feel like there's a story where batman (bruce wayne) gets slightly injured or is knocked out and jimmy inherits his wealth and becomes Batman.
Robin: you… look a bit different this morning. Did you lose weight?
@@tomorrow4eva Bat Jimmy: Um, yeah, those nightly roof top jumping's really helps to burn of that cake, huh? Oh, gee golly robin, we gotta get on this case.
Robin: But...gee golly's my thing.
This is a style of comedy you just don't see anymore. Beautiful and hilarious.
“Eels for ladders” the silver age is wild 😂
Learning more about Superman and how he was in the 30s and 40s (though this works with Batman too) I have to say that I find it absolutely believable that those closest to him aren't batting an eye when he gets super aggressive and cruel. I mean, we're talking about a character that used to deliberately brutalize mobsters, slumlords, corrupt politicians, and the like.
Sure, Superman got toned down as the decades went by. However, I have a feeling that, even though covers like this were meant to be shocking and were pulling a bait-and-switch, the understood sentiment was that "yeah Superman might still do something like this and we should not be too surprised if it happens".
As to the outcome of the comic itself, I definitely wasn't expecting the plot at all to be what it turned into but I feel that's probably because I'm not well versed in DC lore from that era, what with the whole "Mera is missing!" backdrop for Aquaman. I thought it was just going to be a teaser to get people to buy and then the story turns out to not have a scenario anywhere close to what the cover promised, so good job
I can't believe Superman would let Jimmy Olsen die!
lol they need to bring those covers back 😅 they are basically memes before means
I live for casually comics uploads ! It’s definitely a highlight !
Silver Age Superman was such a jerk that I almost believed he would let Aquaman die.
Merciful Minerva!! The cover page you shown at 0:27, Not the one where Lex Luthor is punching a kid versión of Superman, which I want to know everithing about, but for now, I mean the one where Batman and Robin are having an agument on a Woman we can see from behind, is she the Black Wiodow???!!!! Is Dick Grayson replaced by Natasha Romanov???
Jimmy: "Do you think Superman is acting strange?"
Aquaman: "Nah, you should see the glee in his eyes when he snaps Kryptonian necks."
Too soon?
Red water causes Proteus to lose his power, like a red sun causes Superman to lose his. Are they saying Proteus is Kryptonian?
I like to believe that I have managed to will this video into existence. I want to test my powers further - "Sasha, yooooou shoooould make more DC vs Vampires videooooos."
Great video. There's no where flash is told he'll never walk again. That'd be interesting
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When a whale of tale is just a slight footnote
You know in a water-rful adventure
Aquaman vs Aqua-Jimmy? Well if Aquaman is anywhere near a polar bear I give him the edge.
Why is Jimmy dressed like Namor in those trunks?
That time Jimmy Olsen became a Redheaded Namor.
So, if Aquaman HAD died, would he have been given a "burial at sea"? How would that work in underwater Atlantis??
They could use a brine pool, deposits of denser fresh water forming underwater lakes.
Superman:who should i save,my friend whom i actually bully every time i met him at the job or the my fellow superhero whose life depends on water itself...damn this situation it s so stressing i need a drink to refresh my idea 🤔
Meanwhile jimmy and aquaman: ☠️☠️
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As wacky as some Silver Age stories could be, the covers were generally pure proto-clickbait with next to nothing in common with the actual story within. It's kind of hilarious, but the problem is all the nerds _today_ who think this is what all comics are like, or that Superman is that horrible as a person.
Nice syncretism, with Proteus (Greek) merged with the Old Man of the Sea (Arabic) commanding Leviathan (Jewish) who is himself conflated with the fish which swallowed Jonah (also Jewish, but a different story), all to destroy Aquaman, King of Atlantis (Greek again).
I remember this issue fondly. Neal Adams did the cover art along with a great many others at that time which probably helped sell a lot of titles for DC across the board.
Proteus obviously went mad, dissociated his form into multiple entities, and begat a new race of shape changing blobs that in 1000 years would become Proty's race.
How about a review of the Jerry Lewis comics where he meets various DC heroes and villains? That ought to be a fun series to do.
Kind of surprised Aquaman just rolled with this madness.
"Oh, Jimmy.... You're Such a Carp!" 😅
Nautical News Hound! They were really loving themselves on the writing sometimes.
At about 03:04 in this video:
That plaque _Jimmy_ saw inside the whale should have included the words, *_"JONAH WAS HERE."_*
🤭🤭🤭
Supes seems to spend a lot of time in space. Perhaps that's where he and Wonder Woman were at the beginning of the Green Lantern movie.
The cover …lol… why oh why is Jimmy in that suit.?? It must feel 110 degrees for him.?? Lol
if only the status quo hadn't been returned at the end. I can't help but imagine what that would look like. Aquaman is just straight up dead and Jimmy Olsen takes over as king for about a decade before they decide to revive the Aquaman comics in which they reveal that he has been perfectly preserved in ice
Nautical Newshound goes right up there with Dominoed Daredoll for best alliterative Silver Age monikers
Superman makes proteus into the protagonist of iron lung
Aqua Jimmy and his Waterboard
THE TABLES HAVE TURNED JAMES
Aqua-Olsen actually a better name than I thought but could you picture in the age of cutting down the 'silly' and non super powered supports if instead Aquaman was killed in a call back to this issue and Jimmy Olesn became the new Aquaman
Neal Adams Covers are the BOMB!
Imagine if this happens in Aquaman 2.
This keeps proving Jimmy would do anything for powers. Letting Aquaman die is not a good reason enough for Jimmy Olsen to quit
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Mera was missing in this issue, similar to how she’s gonna be missing from any future Aquaman movies. Or at least the original actress