Jason Lager discusses Superman in 1970s comics, highlighting their social commentary and science fiction elements.
The collection features 13 comics from the 1970s, including stories that deal with racial injustice and social problems.
Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, undergoes a procedure to experience life as a black woman, inspired by the book and film 'Black Like Me'.
The comics offer a time capsule of the 1970s, providing insight into the tumultuous era for African-American people.
Greetings, classic cinema and TV fans, as well as comic book fans. This is Jason Lager, Pastor Jay, back with you once again, bringing you another comic book roundup as we look back at some classic comics in the classic cinema archives. very very cool love this this is pretty awesome love this this right here we we've talked before it here on this channel about how that we like to go to Ollie's Ollie's is a discount store that sells books and comics and and movies and DVDs and blu-rays and and you know food and furniture and clothes and all kinds of stuff if you have never checked out an Ollie's and there is an Ollie's in your neck of the woods, definitely check them out. They're amazing. We're not sponsored by Ollie's, but I'm just saying they do really have a lot of awesome stuff. It's been a long time since we've been there because of, at the time we're recording this, COVID-19 and all this type of stuff. It's still out there, so we've not been to Ollie's in a long, long time. We're going to have to make a trek there very, very soon and check out some of the stuff that we've been missing out on. But something that we have got in our collection many, many years ago was something that I wanted so, so bad when I saw it. I was like, I have to have this. And I got this for like, I think, three or four dollars. Again, it's been a long, long time since I've been there. So it's hard to remember the exact price, but it was something like three or four dollars. and retail price here is $20, and we got it for like $3. We're talking about Superman in the 70s. This is such an amazing comic book. Now, collection of comics, shall I say. It is just filled with amazing stuff. There 13 comics from the 70s collected in this book And Superman in the 70s dealt with a lot of the social issues racial issues stuff like that dealing much more in science fiction type stuff a little more out there sometimes. And that is not always a bad thing. That is actually really a cool thing to deal with social issues, to deal with some of those things, and to deal with the more science fiction-y type of details and storylines. Those really excite me. I'm a big science fiction guy, so to me, it's seeing the stories be a little more science fiction-y with all the stuff like that really excites me and makes me pretty excited to read these, right? So we have Superman in the 70s here. And I think one of the things that really is amazing, the one that I wanted to bring out is just simply one that is found in this collection. And I'm going to bring it up to you here. And that is this one. Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane. That's pretty shocking. Now, for the 70s, that was very shocking. Now, in this day and age, it's not. But in the 70s, that was very shocking. There was a film many, many, many years ago. It was a book, and then it was made into a film. It was called Black Like Me, right? It was about a reporter, a white reporter that had a procedure done that changed his skin pigment to where he would look black and then he would go and live life as a black man in the South to understand how the racial tensions and the injustice and all that and be able to report it They kind of took that idea and made it into the comics with Lois Lane, sort of like Black Like Me. That was pretty shocking, as we said. And such a good comic. I mean, such an amazing comic. These comics are not your typical stories of all about good versus evil, you know, aliens and invaders and Superman having to defeat Lex Luthor and all this stuff. It's not always that. There are some, but a lot of this deals with the racial injustice and the social problems and all that was going on in the world in the 70s. And that is what made this collection so, so awesome. This really is a time capsule to the 70s and kind of gives you an idea of if you didn't live in the 70s, what the 70s were like and how it was a very tumultuous and very, very hard time for African-American people to live and to survive because there was a lot of that. And it went back way worse as time was earlier, even earlier on. It was a whole lot worse. But this is literally a time capsule of the 70s. Now, I didn't live in the 70s. I mean, I was an 80s kid, right? So I didn't see a lot of the 70s turmoil, right, and all. So these type of things kind of give me that snapshot to look back and see what it was, but see what it was, but yet enjoy the stories of Superman. And that makes that pretty cool. Loaded with awesome awesome different pretty cool tales And you do get your Lex Luthor as you see You get your Lex Luthor. So that's good in this. But there is a lot of really cool tales from Superman in the 70s. So yeah, definitely one to check out if you can. I think that is amazing. nothing more can be said. That just makes you want to read it. That just makes you want to read that. So anyway, so this is a really, really cool book. If you've never seen Superman in the 70s, we definitely, definitely suggest checking out Superman in the 70s. It is a really, really good book. 13 Tales and even got a little crypto, the Superdog, in there. So that's pretty cool. Definitely check it out. The 70s. Superman in the 70s. Very amazing. All right. Well, thank you for joining us today on this comic book roundup as we kind of look back at the 70s and enjoy comics from back in the day. 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