YMMV / Superman (1939)

• Fanon Discontinuity: Issue #415: "Supergirl: Bride Of — X?" was hated by everyone, feeling that introducing a never previously mentioned -and creepy-looking- husband which Supergirl had somehow forgotten about, right after her death, was an extra insult to the character and her fans. No one considers it canon anyway, since it was a time of way out stories as writers were cut loose to write any story they wanted before the reboot.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In issue #165 "The Sweetheart Superman Forgot" (1963), Superman is exposed to red kryptonite that causes him to lose his powers and his memory. He eventually enters a rodeo, where he's thrown from a horse and injured so that he's paralyzed from the waist down. That story became rather more significant when Christopher Reeve, known for playing Superman, was paralyzed from the neck down by being thrown from a horse.
  • Issue #596 sent the US into a panic when the LexCorp Towers (Metropolis' version of the Twin Towers) were shown to be in a state of near-total collapse after being hit by an alien spaceship. The day that comic was due to hit newsstands? September 12, 2001. DC assured retailers that they would be allowed a no-fault return for the issue, given the situation, and encouraged them to make use of it. Few, apparently, did. The issue, taking place after a global invasion, had several pictures of buildings in ruins... Near the picture of the LexCorp building was one of the ACTUAL twin towers, with blast holes at roughly the SAME place as where the planes had hit in real life. Additionally, Superman himself took to wearing a darker costume with a red and black version of the "S"-shield to mourn and honor the dead, and many people wore black after 9-11 in remembrance of the attacks.

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