No Superman this time around, for the spooky season Denis gets to talk about one of his favorite cartoonists- Richard Sala and the book, The Chuckling Whatsit!
Lots of strange characters and even stranger goings on in this tale involving murder, astrologists, and handcrafted dolls!
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Superman #5 sees the Mummy strike! Or is it a robot?
Adventures of Superman #428 sees the first appearance of characters like Bibbo Bibbowski and Jerry White! We also learn Perry White cares more about the truth than his family!
Superman and Hawkman in Action Comics #588 requires some diving into Hawkman comics- what's his deal? Also, sci-fi space battles!
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In Superman The Man Of Steel #43, Superman and Mister Miracle go down the Boom Tubes! And they deal with a volcano and Deathtrap! Big Barda shows up too!
Superman #99 sees the return of Agent Liberty! Is he a good guy? Is he a bad guy? He's just this guy, you know?
In Adventures of Superman #522 we finally find out how Metropolis was rebuilt after being destroyed by Lex Luthor! All thanks to Perry White!
Superman in Action Comics #709 Superman battles a deranged Guy Gardner in a tunnel! Good thing Dan Turpin is there to help!
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Superman #4 sees the debut of Bloodsport! And Maggie Sawyer, too!
Adventures of Superman #427 has Superman getting involved with conflicts in the Middle East, but has some lighter fun too- like fighting Godzilla!
Action Comics #587 Superman teams up with the Demon, Etrigan! They have to stop people from being turned into crystal towers!
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Denis and David discuss the Midwest road trip they took to visit some comic-related museums. First was the Super Museum in Metropolis, Illinois:
Then the Popey Museum and statues in Chester, Illinois:
And last stop The Fiberglass Freaks' Batman Museum in Logansport, Indiana:
https://fiberglassfreaksmuseum.com/
And because David is insane, he also managed to talk about March 1995 Superman comics!
Superman The Man of Steel #42 sees the conclusion of the magician, Lock, and his "key"- rock star turned vampire, Babe Tanaka!
Superman #98 features Superman and Cat Grant visiting the Toyman in prison to find out why he is how he is!
The Adventures of Superman #521 sees the return of Thorn! Will she be a thorn in Superman's side?
Superman in Action Comics #708 has Superman and Mister Miracle making some daring escapes!
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Legends is the DC Crossover event from 1987, we cover the mini-series but first the related Superman comics:
Superman #3 sees Superman go to Apokolips!
Adventures of Superman #426 sees Superman leading a war, with many casualties!
Superman in Action Comics #586 has Superman confused and thinking he is the son of Darkseid!
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Denis and David talk about James Gunn's new film, Superman! And they probably don't talk about anything else. Spoilers abound!
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Denis and David talk Modern Superman Comics and all Superman comics from February 1995 in this episode.
Superman: The Man of Steel #41 sees the return of Babe Tanaka in full Dracula-mode!
Superman #97 introduces new character, Shadow Dragon!
Adventures of Superman #520 sees the introduction of new Superman artist, Stuart Immonen! Superman battles a lot of d-list villains on Christmas!
Action Comics #707 sees more Shadow Dragon! Wooooo!
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Superman #2 features a lot of Lex Luthor and a brutal treatment of Lana Lang!
Adventures of Superman #425 sees Professor Emil "Hammy" Hamilton at his lowest!
Superman in Action Comics #585 has some fun as the Phantom Stranger and Superman battle a tornado of evil dead bodies!
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Superman The Man of Steel #40 sees some brain aliens that come out of walnut shells! And we also get the Rolling Stones! ... kinda
Superman #96 is maybe the most fun of the Dead Again—thanks to Brainiac, we get Superman having hallucinations! It's worth it for a mini-Reign of Supermen Reunion and Ma Kent befriending Doomsday!
The Adventures of Superman #519 is just a battle between Brainiac and Superman, at least it's the end of Dead Again!
Supergirl in Action Comics #706, you read that right- Supergirl! This story focuses mainly on her visiting the Kents in Smallville and having to stop runaway farm equipment!
And even more Superman-related fun, if you can believe it!
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Dan Jurgens is back again with another anniversary issue, this time it's Zero Hour's 30th Anniversary!
As someone who recently read the original Zero Hour, this was still tough to decipher... So, of course, Denis had to read this as well to do the recap!
Over 70 pages of story are broken up into roughly seven 10-page chunks, with different artists achieving varying success!
Does Validus from the Fatal Five have a face on his brain? Who knows! Listen for this and more!
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Superman #1 features the beginning of a new ongoing Superman title by John Byrne! Superman faces off against Metallo!
The Adventures of Superman #424 picks up the numbering of the previous Superman title with a new name! Written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by Jerry Ordway! Superman fights giant robot terrorists!
Superman in Action Comics #584 is also by John Byrne! Superman has gone evil and is fighting the Teen Titans!
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For this episode, both David and Denis have read Dan Jurgen's 3 issue prestige-format mini-series, Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey!
This is it! The return of Doomsday! ... Or is that Darkseid? Waverider's here too!
And the official introduction of a semi-regular segment: Modern-Day Superman Comics!
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Denis got points from Trivia and picks the first appearance of Superman, Action Comics #1!
And all the back-up stories as well!
Also, Denis tells us about current comics he's enjoying!
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Man of Steel #4 sees how manipulative Lex Luthor can be!
Man of Steel #5 shows a short-lived Bizarro!
Man of Steel #6 Clark recons with his Kryptonian past as well as Lana Lang!
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Merry Christmas!
We're going back to the start of the post-Crisis Superman!
In Man of Steel #1, we get a short Krypton prologue, and then it's the story of young Clark Kent up until his decision to become Superman!
Man of Steel #2 is the story of Lois Lane, and we see how she'll risk everything (including her own life!) to get a story with Superman! But then Clark Kent just swoops in and turns in the story first, doesn't really seem fair ...
In Man of Steel #3, post-Crisis teams up with Batman for the first time! Except Batman's the same Batman as pre-Crisis? Don't think about it! And we get that classic Batman villain, Magpie!
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Superman’s still freaking dead!
Superman The Man of Steel #39 Superman isn’t the only one dead, in this issue Keith’s mom returns only to die! Don’t worry, he gets adopted by the Whites. Turns out alive Superman is the fake and dead Superman is the real deal! Superman assumes this is the work of Luthor, but he’s a vegetable!
Superman #95 this must be the work of Brainiac then! Except … he’s also a vegetable! Atom hijacks along for an adventure because he’s a teen now, causing trouble!
The Adventures of Superman #518 if not Luthor or Brainiac, then it must be Cyborg Superman! Maybe Darkseid knows where he is … which he does, but he’s not telling!
Superman in Action Comics #705 Superman goes really crazy assuming it’s Mxyzptlk behind the supercorpse! Except he’s wrong! It turns out it was the second guy, Brainiac? Maybe???
Superman The Man of Steel #38 there's a dead Superman and an alive Superman- which one is real?
Superman #94 Superman fights Conduit! Kenny Braverman (Conduit) wants to kill Clark Kent (Superman)!
The Adventures of Superman #517 we get introduced to Carl Draper, the master jailer!
Superman in Action Comics #704 Superman goes after Eradicator assuming he's behind the fake dead Superman!
Also, we cover Outsiders #13, Steel #9, Superboy #9, Aquaman #3, Metropolis SCU #1, AND Guardians of Metropolis #1!
And also Ads!! How do we do it??
In this episode, we wrap up listening to and rating all Superman-adjacent songs. Who will end up on top? Who will be on the bottom? Listen and find out!
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Denis, David, and special guest Ryland Ianelli listen to and rate all the songs of Superman (mostly those with Superman in the title). This episode covers the first half, and the crew rates them on Song Goodness, Understanding of Superman, and whether Jimmy Olsen would wear the group as a shirt.
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