I, on the other hand, love the Silver Age. I think the after-the-fact explanations of things like "What does Clark do with his clothes?" (Oh, he, um, super-compresses them. Yeah, that's it.) were almost always a lot of fun. Yes, sometimes they got a little too goofy, but overall Silver Age mythology adds a lot to my enjoyment of the older stories.

I guess it is fun to look back on that kind of stuff, like the explanation that Superman's heat vision had to do with the fact that he was moving his eyes at super speed causing friction... , but as a writer, I cringe everytime I hear this kind of thing.

If you haven't checked it out, you should check out the books Science of Superheroes and Science of Super Villains. They go into all this sort of stuff, and either prove or disprove it, sometimes not what you'd expect (like when they proved the Myx's stuff was ENTIRELY possible).

The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios is a fun read (though a little difficult at times, like the Kitty Pryde section).

in Morrison's All Star Superman, the new key to the fortress of solitude is made out of dwarf star material, making it so heavy only he can lift it, so fe just leaves it on the front porch. I think superman would do this sort of thing with his wallet. (since its confirmed he carries it)
he probably has a clasp on it so powerful no one could open it but him, and then no one could look inside to see his identity.

WAIT A second here...

You mean Clark Kent is Superman?
You gotta be kidding me. I mean, really. How can that be? I mean, for one thing, Clark grew up in Kansas, Supermna is from Krypton. Another thing, Clark wears glasses, Superman doesn't. Come on people, Clark is so not Superman.

Next you'll be telling me millionaire Bruce Wayne is Green Lantern and likes teenage boys or something.

Yeah, like some wimpy rich guy like Bruce Wayne could actually be a superhero. All he does is party and hang out with supermodels. It's not like he's gonna turn out to have a secret headquarters under his house or anything.

Let's not forget he has a history of having little boys around him.

Headquarters under his house? Pfft, unless they were natural, like a cave or something, I don't think it'd be possible to keep that hidden.

This is WAY more disturbing considering I was talking about one of his BACK pocekts!

That reminds me of a joke I heard years ago on some sitcom. I don't even remember what show it was--I just remember this one joke:

Someone mentions that Bruce Wayne is really Batman.

Another character replies: "Waitaminute! Bruce Wayne is Batman? This changes everything. I've got to go home and re-read all my back issues."

That's hilarious.

Repped you for it.

I heard that!

Man, what is that from?

This is gonna bug me

I got it!!! What he did is traveled to the marevl universe and borrowed some unstable mocules from reed. Then he forms a wallet out of that. afterwards the wallet travel to the negative zone and chills. then when he needs it again supes claps his hands twice and an interspacal time travel space monkey butler named blipply comes and retrives it for him. Clark the feeds the monkey an atomic banana. afterwhich the monkey travels back to the image universe and waits to be summoned. and that what happens to the wallet.

I'd just think he wouldn't bother carrying his wallet. Since he moves at super-speed, he'd only need to round a corner or go behind a wall for a few seconds to have enough time to go home and fetch it.

Plus carrying a wallet gives you the male equivalent of panty lines, which would probably be especially unbecoming on a man with his physique.

Darn it! That's what I was gonna say! Steal my thunder...