Poor
Superman is whining again about his dead parents...
Fortunately,
Jimmy has
a magic wishing totem (seriously) and decides to
waste use the final wish on giving Superman
his wish!
The
real reason for typing? So we can have a stupid plot complication like this:
Oh, Jimmy. Typing "
mate" when you meant "
meet"? How does that even work? Sounds like a real naughty Freudian slip, to me!
Good thing this is a
Silver Age,
Code-approved book, then. I sure some modern creators would literally try make Superman mate his parents.
Ewwwwww!!
Nope, that just means he has to help them get married. Phew!!
Kal-El meets them when they're young and adorable...but they have a secret!!
"
Kil-Lor"?
Kil-Lor?!?!?! Oh my.
You do have to love the partially obscured but very obvious swastika behind them. Were
Jor-El and
Lara space Nazis?!?
Just then...
The
KBI!!
Ah, so Jor-El is
undercover, infiltrating the space Nazis!! Gee, only two cliched things could go wrong with that plan...what are the odds of
both of them happening here?
100%, it turns out!
Sure, you gotta trust the Kryptonian justice system!
D'oh!!
After Kal-El frees them, and creates some Kryptonite decades early in order to defeat Kil-Lor...
Damned
convenient, this science stuff!
But...but...that's very
timey-wimey!!
Wait!! If Superman
hadn't intervened, they would have been on in suspended animation on their satellite for 100 years, and Kal-El would not have been born before Krypton exploded!!
But...but...
Forget about it
snell...it's the Silver Age.
From Superman #123 (1958)