you forgot to mention that Space Kid and Stella are secretly lovers
>:P
where does Space Kid get the money for his ship and space station?
I dunno.
Usually in fifties-era pop culture, there is at least a pat explanation: "millionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne" comes to mind.
I was having this conversation with someone else just this morning: pre-1960, it was most common for a hero to be given a comprehensive origin if he was a superhero, and there needed to be some explanation for “how is he able to do the strange uncommon thing(s) he can do”. But characters who were simply “adventurers” with no superhuman capabilities, were often simply presented as a fait accompli. Or so it seems to me. (Sky Captain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow) gets it.) It was after JLA, and the Marvel age of shared universe, that continuity became such a bugaboo and full backstories became expected.
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where does Space Kid get the money for his ship and space station?
I dunno.
Usually in fifties-era pop culture, there is at least a pat explanation: "millionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne" comes to mind.
I was having this conversation with someone else just this morning:
pre-1960, it was most common for a hero to be given a comprehensive origin if he was a superhero, and there needed to be some explanation for “how is he able to do the strange uncommon thing(s) he can do”. But characters who were simply “adventurers” with no superhuman capabilities, were often simply presented as a fait accompli. Or so it seems to me. (Sky Captain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Captain_and_the_World_of_Tomorrow) gets it.)
It was after JLA, and the Marvel age of shared universe, that continuity became such a bugaboo and full backstories became expected.