User blog:BruceGrubb/Superman Vol 1 175 review

Superman Vol 1 175 review
While the story has its heart in the right place even by the Superman mythology of 1965 it has problems.

The first problem is Pete Ross was not a scientific genius so how did he find Superman's Fortress, rip the door open, and know how to operate the ancient Kryptonian machines? In the normal Earth-One reality even Lex Luthor couldn't do all that and the reader is asked that Pete Ross had the knowhow to make such an endeavor work.

The second problem is that Superboy had robots with his superpowers. So why hadn't Luthor been working on updated versions of those or better yet a power suit?

In fact, Luthor causes a lot of logic problems with the story. Even limited to what had appeared up to 1965 Luthor should have had a lot more options: a force field to protect Superman from Kryptonite in emergencies, some form of medicine to give Superman brief immunity to Kryptonite and so on.

The story had an interesting premise but like many stories of the Silver Age it dropped the ball in terms of logic.--BruceGrubb (talk) 16:37, October 31, 2016 (UTC)