I've always loved this image of the Superman family.
I believe it began life as a pin-up for a Superman Annual,
but I knew it from the back cover of the "record comic"
included with a kit full of fun Superman items including a
Supermen of America button and a secret
code card.
I love how Curt
Swan works everyone into the shot, including
a convenient wading pool for Lori the Mermaid and
the statues (?) of Superman's birth and foster parents, which
with his usual unhealthy fixation on past tragedies he's painted
up in lifelike skin tones and dressed with real clothes. Also
I wonder what the criteria was for choosing Legionnaires.
Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl
make sense as the original members, but out of the
remaining (huge) roster of members, why Chameleon
Boy and Sun Boy? Possibly Cham got
in because he's so obviously alien?
Another head-scratcher is Professor Potter,
who I can't remember ever being a major player. Of course
it's totally in character for Mxyzptlk to
pop in and ruin the shot, but logically shouldn't Bizarro
be frowning?
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