The comic book starts with Major Disaster, a painfully generic villain. He has a pocket watch and some sort of fork symbol on his forehead, but I'm sure he gets overlooked at all the villain conventions. He's gloating over a "crowning catastrophe" he's planned for Metropolis, after which it will only be "a matter of heartbeats before contact -- with my caped target -- Superman!" Contact? Sounds like he just wants to leave him a text message or something.
And these villains really ought to see a therapist about their cape fixation. It can't be healthy.
"I trust too many of you won't be disappointed..." Would it be too much to ask for the teacher to speak English correctly? Apparently so. I think just reading the dialogue from this comic aloud could reduce your IQ by ten points or so. Note also the dichotomous green-shirted morons, one completely missing the teacher's point and the other shamelessly toadying to her.
What would an educational 1980s comic book be without the one "hip" black kid? It was, after all, the golden age of tokenism, and here it is in all of its Afro-topped leisure-suited glory.
Anyway, Superman has arrived, he's read the seating chart with his X-ray vision, and he's ready to lecture the kids on the history of computers. Unfortunately, tow-headed Alec has other ideas. "History and computers are boring enough by themselves," he sneers.
Here Superman reveals one of his less-used powers: Super-Taunting. Able to bully sixth-graders in a single bound!
The story jumps to a random tornado for a few panels, then it's time for an encapsulated history of computers in comic form, which is actually more boring than it sounds.
