Okay, so Jimmy's going to wake up in the year 2058, or about midway through the 21st century, right? Err, no, not according to the splash page:
Okay, so he's going to sleep for five hundred years and wake up in the 25th century or presumably somewhere around 2458. Got that? Nope, not according to the story itself:
And that was when Superman tumbled to the hoax. "Hey, wait a minute—if I add a hundred years to..."
ReplyDeleteSomebody oughta fire whoever was responsible for editing that mess ;)
ReplyDeleteThe eerie part for me is the stated year on the cover---A.D. 1958.
ReplyDeleteWhile it sounds like it's in the far future, it just occurred to me, I was barely old enough to read that issue when it came out. If I have a superannuated life span---one that some of these "oldest people living" folks have---then there is an outside chance that I could live to see that year! Or at least get real close to it.
Now that's just spooky.
Sorry, I meant to say "the stated year on the cover---A.D. 2058."
ReplyDeleteI might live that long, but it looks like I'm going to be senile long before I do. Heh.
Of course Supes coulda just gazed at that wax figure with his X-ray vision and seen it wasn't Jimmy. But then, that would melted the ice AND the wax figure (at least according to the internal "logic" of the X-ray vision of the Silver age where it seems Superman's eyes bombard things with fiery-hot radiation- which means most of his friends probably died of cancer sometime in the mid-70's) spoiling the gag.
ReplyDeleteI'd be 88 in 2058. Damn.
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