Tuesday, May 17, 2011  The Superboy TV Show Swipe  While looking
through the early 1960s letters columns in Adventure Comics to
see if anyone had written in to complain about the Superboy
swipes (see previous post), I came across this missive:  I had
never heard about an early 1960s Superboy pilot, so I did some
searching and found it on YouTube:  As you can see, after an
origin sequence, the story starts out with a young man who's
embarrassed because his dad's occupation is a lowly doorman at
the local movie theater. I particularly love the speech his dad
(the terrific and forgotten actor, Ross Elliott) gives starting
around 5:10 about how if he gets his son through college and
into his chosen profession, he'll consider himself as successful
as anyone his son knows.  But that's not why I decided to do
this post. I realized as soon as I saw the opening sequence in
the school that the basic plot was swiped from a comic that I
had read recently. Since I've been working my way through the
Adventure issues featur