But to be fair, the average person on the street isn't even aware that there was a Superman Broadway Musical. During the opening song, Superman flew on to the stage, singing the song "Doing Good", while changing from Superman to Clark Kent using a prop Phone Booth. but in all 104 episodes he never used a phone booth.Ī phone booth was used in the 1966 Broadway Musical "It's a bird, It's a plane, It's Superman!" starring Bob Holiday. WAITING IN A PHONEBOX SERIESIn "The Adventures of Superman" TV series of the 1950s starring George Reeves, Clark mostly used the Daily Planet Store Room to make his costume change. Some of the earliest examples of Clark Kent using a phone booth to change in to Superman in the comic books are "Superman #60" (1949) in the story "Superman Fights the Super-Brain" by Don Cameron, and in "Superman #69" (1951) in the story "The Prankster’s Apprentice" we see Clark removing his shirt in a phone booth. While inside the phone booth he says to himself, "This definitely isn't the most comfortable place in the world to switch garments, but I've got to change identities - and in a hurry!" Yet this was not the very first time Superman found himself changing clothes inside a phone booth.īud Collyer, who voiced Superman in the 1940s radio series, would also sometimes state in an episode that he needed to duck into a nearby phonebooth for a quick change from his Clark Kent identity into the colorful garb of Superman. Clark, seeing that there is a job for Superman, excuses himself from Lois by arranging to be called away by a bogus phone call. Yes, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (creators of Superman) used a phone booth for Clark Kent to change into Superman in a Sunday newspaper comic strip in late 1942. Actually right throughout every era of Superman comic books the phone booth change isn't often seen. In the Golden Age of comic books Clark Kent rarely used a phone booth to change into Superman. Let's go back in time and take a look at the various eras of Superman. Why? Why has the phone booth become synonymous with Superman? If you ask the average person on the street, "Where does Clark Kent change into Superman?", nine out of ten people will answer "In a phone booth". Other Miscellaneous Superman Stuff Superman and the Phone BoothBy Steve Younis
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