![]() ![]() Honestly, I could’ve easily compiled this list entirely out of screengrabs from Watchmen. The Comedian crashes through a window ( Watchmen) Still, the resemblance between the original panel and its cinematic copy is remarkably striking. There are differences Routh gently sets down the much newer model car rather than destroying it, and there aren’t any freaked out felons on hand. Siegel and Shuster also restaged this dramatic scene inside the issue itself, where (as on the cover) Superman smashes the vehicle against a nearby rockface as a gang of hoodlums flee in terror.ĭirector Bryan Singer and director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel paid homage to this historic panel in 2006’s Superman Returns with a shot of Brandon Routh’s Man of Tomorrow gripping an auto overhead. It’s the image that established the Man of Steel as the world’s first true superhero, and it adorned the cover of Superman’s debut in 1938’s Action Comics #1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. ![]() ![]() Superman hefting a car above his head is arguably the most iconic – and inarguably the most important – visual in Western comics. ![]()
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