For all their goofiness, silver age comics had this covered - Superman was able to use his super muscles to change the shape of his face, and he was always doing so when he was being Clark Kent, so that Kent and Supes didn't look the same even without glasses.
Except for when they said it was him using "super-hypnosis". Or when they just played it for laughs that Lois couldn't tell, because Silver Age comics were pretty misogynist.
Back in the '70s, a Superman issue I had explained how Clark had to fashion "super" glasses out of the wreckage of the pod which delivered him to earth simply because he kept melting earthly glasses with his heat and x-ray visions.
A side effect of these glasses was their latent hypnotic ability to affect perception, specifically how people perceive the wearer and the non-wearer. Clark had his colleagues who had seen Superman personally sketch him, and later sketch Kent himself.
For some reason, when he wasn't wearing the glasses, Superman was more muscular and chiseled good looking than in pics, where Kent was more nebbish and weak, with thinning hair and hardly any body at all.
That doesn't explain facial recognition, of course. Yet.
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Date: 2016-11-30 02:01 am (UTC)A side effect of these glasses was their latent hypnotic ability to affect perception, specifically how people perceive the wearer and the non-wearer. Clark had his colleagues who had seen Superman personally sketch him, and later sketch Kent himself.
For some reason, when he wasn't wearing the glasses, Superman was more muscular and chiseled good looking than in pics, where Kent was more nebbish and weak, with thinning hair and hardly any body at all.
That doesn't explain facial recognition, of course. Yet.