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Post by dans on Mar 5, 2024 0:07:25 GMT
The Microwave Man story is interesting and has some flaws. I don't believe that complex radio equipment would still be in working condition after being untouched for 40 years, particularly because when he built that stuff, they used vacuum tubes and hand-wired and soldered all the connections. All those wires would make a perfect nesting spot for small rodents and a high percentage of the tubes wouldn't work... plus, it seems unlikely that nobody broke into the place during it being unoccupied for 40 years (though a lot less unlikely than everything working fine...).
In addition, Lewis Padgett was away from Earth for 40 years, and almost nobody noticed, but he returned and was reported as a missing person two days later? By whom? I suppose he might have decided to live at a shelter or a boarding house for a couple of days and they contacted the police when he went missing... but I wonder why a missing person at a flop house would register on Superman's radar?
Also interesting is the backup story in that issue, which is about the new Air Wave... two characters with the same powers... one dies and the other one comes into the public eye.
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Post by dans on Mar 5, 2024 21:56:23 GMT
Just occurred to me - the aliens with whom Lewis Padgett (Microwave Man) toured the galaxy had incredibly advanced technology. The probably had some way of protecting his cabin and the equipment in it from the debilitating effects of time, such as a low level force field which maintained a kind of 'stasis' around everything inside it. So his equipment working like new after 40 years is easily explained...
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