Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Oh, I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay...

For some reason, the writers, artists and editors of Superman found this image of the Man of Steel cutting down trees compelling:

There are quite a few more examples and I will add them as I find them. Here's an early one from Adventure #184:

The earliest one I've found so far is this one from Adventure #110, although it's somewhat different from the others in that Superman hurls a spinning circular saw at the trees:

Either way, it's apparent that Kal-El would not find himself welcome at a meeting of the Earth Liberation Front.

Update: Bryon in the comments points us to this dueling lumberjacks panel from Superman #199:


Update II: Another example from Superboy #106, pointed out in the comments by Dave:

2 comments:

bryon said...

There was more super-logging in Superman #199, "Superman's Race with the Flash." Both Superman and the Flash help some Burmese lumberjacks fill their daily quota, as seen here:
http://supermanfan.nu/adventures/flashrace_p12.htm

David said...

Here he goes again, in Superboy #106:

http://supermanfan.nu/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hoax-8.jpg