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In it, Clark steps into a phone booth, spins, and comes out as Superboy. The first one takes place in the episode 'The Fixer' an episode made during John Haymes Newton's brief tenure as the star.

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The Ruby-Spears 'Superman' cartoons saw Clark Kent changing to Superman inside a phone booth in the episodes titled 'Night of the Living Shadows' and 'Bonechill' (1988).Īnd, yes, Clark Kent was seen to use a phone booth in a few episodes of the live-action 'Superboy' TV series of the late 1980s/early 1990s. Looks quickly around, then rushes into a telephone booth and emerges as Superman.

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When a train driver suffers a heart attack, Clark is standing on the subway waiting for a train. Superman finally finds a suitable phone booth in the fourth Christopher Reeve Superman film, 'Superman IV: The Quest for Peace' (1987). 'Action Comics #450' (August 1975), 'World's Finest Comics #252' (September 1978) and 'World's Finest Comics #255' (March 1979) all have scenes in which Clark Kent uses a phone booth to change in to Superman.Įven though use of the phone booth wasn't widely seen over the first 40 years of his existence, the phone booth and Superman are so connected within the minds of the general public that in 1978, when 'Superman: The Movie' was released to cinemas, people roared with laughter when Clark Kent, seeing Lois dangling from the crashed helicopter atop the Daily Planet building, looks for somewhere to change into Superman, walks up to an open-design phone booth, looks it up and down, and realizes it won't do. There are a few examples from comic books in the 1970s, but they are few and far between. But Clark did attempt to change into Superman in a phone booth in the 'SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show' episode titled 'The Bride of Darkseid', but Firestorm's arrival to save a falling Daily Planet globe negates the change. I don't recall Clark using a phone booth in any of the 1960s Filmation Superman cartoons, and in the 1970s 'Super Friends' cartoons we hardly saw Clark Kent at all, as those cartoons focused mostly on the Superheroes rather than their secret identities. However, for the phone booth to be used here in 1966 is an obvious hint that the connection between Superman and the phone booth had already been established. 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. In '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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