Scientists claim to have found Superman's Fortress of Solitude...or at least the movie version of same. Tragically, it's not in the Arctic, so I'm not sure what the big deal is.
Now find a cave that's got a gigantic penny in it and you've really got my interest.
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070801_superman_fortress.html
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Posted by Peter David at August 3, 2007 05:09 PM | TrackBack | Other blogs commentingThe picture of the cave is more impressive than the picture of the fortress.
And with a Mohs scale hardness of only 1.5--2, you can scratch it with your fingernail and pretend that you too are of Krytonian origin. Beats trying to squeeze a lump of coal intyo a diamond which just leaves you with sore hands.
"That cave looks awesome."
I'm sensing another ROAD TRIP!
(BTW, embarassing as it is to ask, just what IS the signifigance of that giant penny? Is it to be offered for really big thoughts or something?)
I think at one time Batman was tied to it and Two-Face flipped it up in the air but Batman used his bat-magnet in his bat-belt to make sure it landed so he didn't get bat-squashed. Or something like that.
They had that story, but they also had a much older World's Finest story with BatMan using it to stop some crook named Coin (the spelling wasn't like that, but it was meant to sound like that) from robbing some odd exhibit. The giant penny was pert of the display and became Bats' trophy.
Found it. It was in World's Finest Comics #30 in 1947.
Of course the real Fortress isn't in the Antarctic. It never was. The movies/comics moved it there because they felt it would look cooler.
And did anyone else see that news story about Wonder Woman? The reporter heard the sound a jet flying overhead, and looked up, but dammit, he couldn't see anything. Had to be her invisible jet.
PETER!
What the HELL is the MATTER with you???
I mean, seriously!
First you help publicize the discovery of Kryptonite. Now you telegraph the location of the Fortress of Solitude. Are you trying to help Lex Luthor kill Superman???
anyone else out there a New Yorker who keeps waiting for a giant glass "T" shaped structure to appear in an Island somewhere in the river?
for that matter -
i'd like to hear that somewhere out in the desert a cave has been discovered that has not only a lot of busted up scientific equiptment but a large steel-lined cell closed with a huge stone block.
For some reason, this story reminds me of one of my favorite Superman covers from Action #411 (see http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=24994 ) where Superman flies to the Fortress only to find "Keep Out" and "Private Property" signs--surely the result of some superheroic eminent domain ruling or something...
mike "shaggy" g: anyone else out there a New Yorker who keeps waiting for a giant glass "T" shaped structure to appear in an Island somewhere in the river?
Luigi Novi: Don't you mean San Francisco? (Or are you talking about a different set of characters than the ones I'm thinking of?)
I don't recall you writing a Bat-related story (I could easily be wrong because it isn't as though I've followed your every move).
Obviously you have some ties to the Superman family (Supergirl).
Luigi Novi: Don't you mean San Francisco? (Or are you talking about a different set of characters than the ones I'm thinking of?)
sorry for the confusion - I'm and "old school" Titans fan - the Wolfman-Perez years - they had the T-tower first and it was in NY
Just got an image in my head of someone being led into that cave, seeing that penny, and then reacting with either "I've heard of inflation but come ON!" or "How much penny candy can you buy with THAT?" Or, another that just hit me, "If THAT's the Wayne family fortune, we're in TROUBLE!"