The two men didn’t have much in the way of motivation outside of simply doing the right thing and each of their stories were pretty formulaic for the time. I’m beginning to think that a lot of early comic book creators didn’t really know how science works. Instead, it grants him “electric power equal to a thousand horsepower”. Following super hero logic this jolt of energy doesn’t kill him. The second is an “energy builder” which he uses to zap his son with electrical power. The first is a television that can view anything in the world which was useful for both spotting where crime and for checking in on what I can only presume are his many ex wives and their new boyfriends.
The father’s name is Professor Warren, a super scientist who has created two of the greatest inventions mankind has ever witnessed. The origin of this superheroic duo is straightforward and simple enough to be described in the first panel of every issue. I don’t know who created him but apparently he was popular enough to be on the cover for the next couple of issues. Professor Supermind and his son made their first appearance in the Dell Comics anthology Popular Comics #60 in Febuary of 1941. Today we are talking about Professor Supermind and Son. While Batman was the first in the long and proud tradition of orphaned superheroes today’s blog post is about a father and son team who go around and fight crime together.īy which I mean the son does all the heavy lifting and the father sits back, tells his son what to do, and subjects his only child to dangerous experiments. In a way it makes sense for a superhero to not have his/her parents around when things like curfew, homework, and “you’re going out dressed like THAT?!” are a constant roadblocks. If you’re looking for someone to blame for this trope, blame Batman.īatman was the first superhero to have a clearly defined origin story and he was the first hero to have his parents tragically killed.
Heck, there are even a couple of actual families that have proven to be incredibly popular,īut for the most part the purpose of being a family member of a superhero usually means your either an obstacle to the work of a superhero, or you’re dead. Sure there are plenty of family figures in comic books. She is lured back to the lab where she is told her role is to marry Bill Leigh and recreate the Great Galactics.Let’s talk about families in comic books. The scientists at Research Alpha, members of the galactic civilization, become concerned with her power as it now outstrips their own. It follows a secretary as she undergoes two treatments, eventually reaching IQ 10,000 and gaining omniscience.
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The third section takes place at Research Alpha, where one of the researchers is experimenting with a serum to rewrite human genetic code to create superminds.
Using his mental powers, he propels the Dreegh thousands of light-years into space. Hanardy also turns out to be a supermind, this time a human boosted by Research Alpha. Several other Dreegh arrive and they begin harvesting blood from the Europan public. In the second section, another Dreegh arrives at Europa and takes the Ungards hostage, along with Hanardy, the captain of a freighter that makes the Earth-Europa run. During the mission, Leigh "awakes" to find he is actually a member of the Great Galactics, a race formerly believed to have left the material realm. Using their mental powers, they take control of a reporter, Bill Leigh, and send him to track down the doctor and his daughter. The two are concerned that a famous doctor living on Europa, Ungard, is actually a member of the galactic civilization that is tasked with protecting lesser races like humanity. They are vampires and set up an underground base where they plan to call on the other Dreegh to invade Earth and use humanity as food. In the first section, two fugitive members of the Dreegh race arrive on Earth. The book has three distinct sections, corresponding to the three original stories. For instance, at IQs in the thousands, individuals gain complete control over their body, allowing them to move at extreme speeds. The story also includes the concept that at certain IQ levels various effects become manifest. The novel shows various alien races whose social roles within the galaxy are based upon their IQ. It is a fix-up of three earlier short stories published separately, "Asylum", "The Proxy Intelligence" and "Research Alpha".Īs with many van Vogt works, the novel uses a psychological element, in this case Intelligence Quotient or IQ. van Vogt first published in complete form in 1977 by publisher DAW Books. Supermind is a science fiction novel by A.
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