Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for August 03, 2021

Telephone booths before telephones were invented.

I loved those old midnigh skulker strips.

How about a fig leaf?

The Poohawk would laugh him right off the comics page. (I have my official Poohawk skulking license)

Ah! The Prehistoric Flasher.

But watch out for the Lone Haranguer. He’s left Id for yonder hills.

So, this is the origin of the Midnight Skulker?

I thought Clark folded the suit into his cape so he could change back after business

Lmao!

I still laugh when I think of the sceen from the first Superman movie when Clark Kent is looking for a place to change into his costume and rescue Lois and he glances at the (then) modern phone booths that were just a hooded phone for minimum privacy.

What about the booths with Ralph Hinkley’s clothes. Though he usually shucked them off behind a bush or in the back seat of Bill Maxwell’s car.

Telephone booth? What is a Telephone booth?

Is the Midnight Skulker an ancestor of the Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight?

The nature of superhero suits — how the heroes manage to hide them under their clothes, where they store their masks and other accessories, how the non-super ones keep from sweating in them, etc. — is one of the great examples of the need for the willing suspension of disbelief when enjoying the adventures of our favorites.

Top award for really pushing the envelope on this matter goes to the 1960s Batman series, where Adam West and Burt Ward would slide down the Bat-poles and automatically be changed from their everyday clothes into their Batman and Robin costumes.