RE: Hypnotism's Weird History #3 - The Comic in Which Lois Lane and Lana Lang Were Hypnotist Pedophiles

Somebody could have been reading that comic back in 1965 and thought, "Oh, I have a great idea! A guy kind of like Batman but he has no secret identity and he doesn't need a utility belt. He just combines random things at hand to get out of danger." A character like MacGyver is then in the late 1960s or early 1970s instead of mid-1980s. It seems obvious in hindsight.

The surprising part for me was how the comic passed the story plot off as perfectly reasonable. If that had been Lex Luthor or anyone else in Metropolis hypnotizing a baby they would have been portrayed as villains. Because it's Superman's friends they are portrayed as hapless tricksters engaging in a harmless scheme.

Also, the blackboard just being there in the suite was weird. In the left panel of a page is Lois Lane ordering the stuff for her improvised hypnosis machine. On the very next panel beside it is a panel of Lois putting the delivered items together in front of a blackboard in the hotel suite. I went back to the previous panel several times rereading it. There's no blackboard on Lois' list of items! Who got the blackboard for her?

The premise was Lois and Lana are at the hotel on assignment from the Daily Planet to help publicize the grand opening. Lois told the deferential hotel manager who was clearly already under a lot of stress from the grand opening that the items Lois was ordering was to "test the service" of the new hotel. Maybe someone told to get chalk might also get a blackboard anticipating that one was needed and the addition of blackboard to the list of items was neglected. That would be a courtesy. If it's a "test" though the manager would only get precisely what was on the list. Anything more or less would risk failing the "test".

I guess it's like what happened on Family Guy. Timelines change and for some reason there's now a chalkboard in the living room.