Super Turtle

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Super Turtle is a fictional character from DC Comics.

On the world Galapagon (parody of Krypton), the scientist Shh-Ell (a parody of Jor-El) of an advanced race of turtles realised that their planet was doomed, and convinced the Science Council that they should build 1,000 spaceships to evacuate it. Slow by nature, the turtles only managed to build one spaceship, in which Shh-Ell's infant son, Tur-Tel (Kal-El) was sent to Earth. Found by a kindly homespun farming couple, the turtle grew up and gained super-powers, becoming Super-Turtle, the Reptile of Steel.

Super-Turtle was created by cartoonist Henry Boltinoff (1914-2001), a native New Yorker whose work had appeared in Esquire, The Saturday Evening Post, and dozens of other publications prior to DC hiring him in 1940 to do one or two-page gag fillers. Boltinoff’s work appeared in countless DC books for the next several decades. His numerous cartoon creations include Casey the Cop, Moolah the Mystic, Cap's Hobby Hints, Little Pete, and the subject of today’s DIAL B for BLOG.