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Which real world computers are the workstations shown at the Daily Planet in the DCAU show Superman: The Animated Series based on?
I would assume that the 'look' is based on these sorts of adverts from the 1970s showing IBM 327x terminals.
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Which real world computers are the workstations shown at the Daily Planet in the DCAU show Superman: The Animated Series based on?
I think they are not based on a real-world computer at all, but on the look of a traditional writing desk with a banker's lamp. This is a kind of desk lamp with a long green lampshade. Such lamps are ...
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Why do the female imps in the DCAU look like human women and not like the male imps? Is this the case in the comics as well?
This appears to be a perfect example of a phenomenon known as Flanderization;
...the process through which a complex fictional character's essential traits are oversimplified to the point where they ...
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Why do the female imps in the DCAU look like human women and not like the male imps? Is this the case in the comics as well?
Just to complete Valorum's answer
In Superman v1 #335 (1979) we can find Miss Bgbznz
Superman v1 #335 (1979)
Yes, strange are the ways of love... And stranger still... In a strange land...
Priest: ......
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Why do the female imps in the DCAU look like human women and not like the male imps? Is this the case in the comics as well?
Valorum does a good job of explaining the time-line of the imp women turning from female imps into pin-up models.
As for the why, it helps illustrate just how much Superman is living rent-free in Mr. ...
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