When you revamped Superman and gave him a force-field around his body, did you do that because you wanted to get away from the “indestructible” costume thing? Did you catch much slack for this new “power”? JB: No, to both. A few months before I started work on Superman, I’d read a book called “The Secret House” (which I highly recommend, though I sadly cannot remember the name of the author.) This book tells all about the strange and amazing things that happen in the world around us, things of which we are mostly oblivious (How they make chocolate cake, for instance. Shudder.) One of the things that was most interesting was the fact that the bioelectric energy of the human body generates a field of energy around all of us, very low wattage and very close to the skin. (This is not Kirillian photography, btw. This is real science.) Apparently, were it not for this field, we would be covered with dust and grime all the time.
When you revamped Superman and gave him a force-field around his body, did you do that because you wanted to get away from the “indestructible” costume thing? Did you catch much slack for this new “power”? JB: No, to both. A few months before I started work on Superman, I’d read a book called “The Secret House” (which I highly recommend, though I sadly cannot remember the name of the author.) This book tells all about the strange and amazing things that happen in the world around us, things of which we are mostly oblivious (How they make chocolate cake, for instance. Shudder.) One of the things that was most interesting was the fact that the bioelectric energy of the human body generates a field of energy around all of us, very low wattage and very close to the skin. (This is not Kirillian photography, btw. This is real science.) Apparently, were it not for this field, we would be covered with dust and grime all the time. I extrapolated this for Superman, as a justification for him wea