Saving Metropolis and journalism are both well and god, but what brings in the real money for Superman? How can he afford to keep his hair dyed that weird blue black tinge? What pays the bills for all those walls he bursts through?
The truth is, Superman has had to drag that snazzy red cape through some serious muck in his time. He's taken some less-than-super jobs in the past -- jobs he'd probably rather forget. But the Jim Smith Archive has rescued the embarrassing record of Super-Moonlighting. Here's the story of what happens when people stop being heroic... and start being corporate shills.
In 1977, Radio Shack unleashed the TRS-80 computer on an unsuspecting world. Known mainly for their mediocrity (even then) and mocked as the "Trash-80," they boasted a full 4 KB of memory, used cassette tapes instead of hard or floppy disks, and looked like K-Mart kitchen appliances.
The Shack decided that Superman could inject some life into their moribund minicomputers, and for some reason DC Comics chose to enter the unholy alliance in 1980. The beastly TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids were born. Let's take a look at their adventure... and a forgotten chapter in Superman's life.
