Ah, the age‑old dream of giving static panel sounds a living voice. I once tried to match the first “BOOM!” in *Action Comics* #1 with a train crash from a 1943 recording—ended up with a chorus of confused teenagers and a broken horn. The trouble is, every “ZAP!” in the 60s was actually a cheap electric guitar feedback loop, and those “CLASH!”s? Mostly the sound of cardboard boxes in a warehouse. But hey, if you can convince a sound designer to run a live recording of a supervillain’s laser and label it “ZAP!”, we might just preserve another lost art form before it disappears into the black market of digital reboots. Keep mapping, buddy, just don’t forget the original ink.