10 Comic Book Moments That Were Profoundly Insulting
5. Lois Lane & Lana Lang Brainwashed Baby Superman Into Marrying Them
Comic: Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #57
What Happened: Superman turns himself into a toddler while conducting a youth-reduction experiment, which leaves Superbaby in the hands of Lois Lane and Lana Lang. While the two women could have spent their time caring for the young superhero, they instead try to seduce him... sort of.
They quickly notice that he was easily hypnotized by a spinning fan because Superman's abilities are completely worthless when he's a toddler... apparently. Deciding to use this to their advantage, the women condition the boy into proposing and kissing them when he returns to adult form. They also take turns spanking the kid, which is weird enough.
When he returns to his adult form, he isn't hypnotized at all, and the ladies are noticeably upset. It turned out that the baby was from an alternate reality, where the hypnosis did work. He grew up to marry both women in a world where bigamy is perfectly legal.
Why Was It Insulting: Do we really have to say? The Silver Age was full of strange and unusual WTF moments, but two grown women working to take advantage of a little boy is just wrong. Sure, he was bound to become an adult eventually, but their actions were effectively a form of mental rape, or at the very least, emotional abuse.