[VadeRetro]

The time he boxed Muhammad Ali for the universe heavyweight title is also up there

Good as Ali was, I can't imagine how the writers gave Supe any problem in a matchup with an ordinary Earthling. If I'm at the story conference, I say, "Naah! We can't go there and it doesn't work."

[Fedora]

> Good as Ali was, I can't imagine how the writers gave Supe any problem in a matchup with an ordinary Earthling. If I'm at the story conference, I say, "Naah! We can't go there and it doesn't work."

That's what I would've said if I was at the story conference, too :) But I have a feeling the marketing people won out over the writers on that one. This was back in the day when DC would publish anything that had a remote chance of a TV tie-in--for instance, about the same time they did an adaptation of "Welcome Back Kotter". For the Superman/Ali fight, they had Superman win the initial fight, but then they came up with some convoluted way of arranging a second, even fight by temporarily taking Superman's powers away. Ali won the second fight and then helped Superman save the earth from an evil alien, or something like that. I think shortly after that Ali got his own Saturday morning cartoon, too. Ah, the 70s. . .