all right guys and especially gals get
ready for a rollercoaster ride as we
measure exactly how far we've come as a
society since the 1970s acting as our
proverbial yardstick will be the not so
classic 1970s world's finest comic and
no that's not an endorsement the name of
the comic is world's finest and it's far
from fine we'll be looking at one issue
in particular but if you ever find some
time a lot of this series is pretty
ridiculous
like the one where Superman and Batman
wake earth yeah that's a thing I'm
Jocelyn the intern I do all the research
nobody else wants to straight from the
desk of death battle now let's get on
topic which is world's finest issue 233
from 1975 in this oho so stupid comic we
follow none other than Superman and
Batman's sons yeah you heard that
correctly and no we don't have time to
explain where they're assumably early
20s offsprings came from anyway Clark
and Bruce's crotch fruit are traveling
through the deep south of America in
their wannabe Mystery Machine when an
old ferry driver keys the kids in on a
nearby ghost town naturally they can't
help but check it out but the first
building they run across a blacksmith's
workshop is far from haunted as our
young heroes exclaim they're surprised
to find a woman or as they describe her
a good girl tending the Smith rather
than some sort of ghost this compels the
young super dude to offer his assistance
to the Smith which she does not take too
kindly as our two young lads make their
way into the city they notice that it's
populated entirely by women led by
sister Sybil and apparently there's a
bunch of strange street signs with
eyeballs on them turns out the residents
aren't too keen on the new male presence
in their town possibly because the two
uncapped Crusaders seem
generally astonished by a female police
officer and they won't stop calling
women things like doll and baby you know
I've never understood that male
mentality what's that you a stranger
called me sweetheart a name usually
reserved as a term of endearment for
five-year-old girls oh man I I wasn't
gonna go home with you but now I totally
am like really eventually the two heroes
spot a damsel in distress as a woman
shingling a nearby building loses her
balance however they're quickly stopped
from saving the woman by local law
enforcement and told to leave it to the
rescue crew what could go wrong right
well the damsel in question could die
and that's exactly what goes down the
mayor of the city dismisses the tragic
event by saying the now dead Shingle er
knew the risks of doing and I quote
man's work yeah now it's pretty clear to
see that these ladies are off their
rockers but that doesn't keep young
Wayne from threatening to and once again
I quote slap some sense into your pretty
faces yeah so the ladies of the town
throw our young protagonists in jail
whilst locked up in the slammer
our young Kryptonian eavesdrops on a
conversation and finds out the town folk
will be meeting with the mysterious
sister Sybil that night in order to bury
the Porsche Engler obviously the boys
can't help but break out of jail suit up
in superhero costumes and attend the
funeral now please just let me take one
moment to point out this panel where
Bruce and Clark jr. demonstrate an
interesting swimming technique
I guess Batman didn't want to get his
poor Widow feetsies wet when anywho it's
not long until the juniors roll up on
sister Sybil's hangout only to find out
it's a giant speaking monolith of sorts
which Bruce quickly insults
this causes the women of Belton to hunt
the men down with a pack of hunting dogs
which guess what
really a threat to Superman jr. however
in a moment of what I can only assume is
subconscious romance the two burly bros
decide to switch costumes to throw the
dogs off their trail and ice you
not they change back like three pages
later when Superman claims that a bat
became sexually interested in him while
he was flying around in the bat suit
yeah don't worry this gets even
dumber as our two heroes are interrupted
by sister Sybil who is actually a giant
green monster
surprise Sybil then explains how she's
made all the ladies in town sick and
that's what's causing them to be so rude
so after dealing with Sybil the boys
head back to town where Bruce jr. just
starts kissing ladies left and right
claiming it's the only antidote to their
sickness and that ladies and gentlemen
just goes to show you how far our
society has come in 40 years