De website Cracked.com heeft vandaag een top zes gemaakt van comics die grote wereldgebeurtenissen voorspelden, en ik kan je nu al zeggen deze shit is bizar en weird tegelijk. Want Superman voorspelde het einde van de koude oorlog en ook de dood van prinses Diana kon je al ver voor het gebeurde in de comics lezen. Net als:

The 9/11 Attacks

That Superman comic from the mid-'70s may not have anticipated the 9/11 attacks... but this one from September 12th, 2001, did. The issue showed the aftermath of an alien invasion on Metropolis.

That's right, that image appeared in a Superman comic that came out on the day after the attacks. That's actually supposed to be Lex Luthor's LexCorp building, which is a single tower with a top floor shaped like a giant L.

So not only did they choose the worst possible angle to depict the damage... they did it in a comic that came out on 9/12. Obviously there was nothing DC could do to pull the comic out of circulation by then (not to mention that their offices are in downtown NY, so they probably had other things in their mind at the moment). They did make the comic returnable, but few if any were actually returned, because people understood that this was nothing but an unfortunate coincidence and not DC's fault. Also, so they could do this:

But a few people selling the comic at 600% the original price on eBay isn't the weirdest part about this whole thing...

It Gets Creepier:

Other parts of the comic showed the impact of the alien invasion on different parts of the world, like Australia...

Washington, D.C....

And holy fucking shit the actual Twin Towers

The WTC actually appears three times across the issue (not counting the accidental image). Take a closer look at that image:

We'd check to see if those match with the actual impact points, but to be honest we're afraid to. We'll just tell you they didn't, though, mainly so you can sleep tonight.