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Nov 26, 2023 · Zod Story. Superman's Rebirth Run Brought Back The Post-Crisis Superman And His Family. John Byrne's Man Of Steel Rebooted Superman For A New Era. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Was An Excellent Team-Up Between The Two Fan Favorites. Grant Morrison's Action Comics Is Casually Brilliant. All-Star Superman Is A Masterpiece.
- 10 Superman Runs Every Fan Should Read - CBR
Byrne's art is tremendous, and it's certainly one of the...
- The Best Modern Superman Stories for New Readers (and ... - CBR
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- 10 Superman Runs Every Fan Should Read - CBR
- 10 John Byrne's Run Has A Complicated Legacy
- 9 Elliot S. Maggin Created Amazing Superman Tales
- 8 Jeph Loeb Brought Superman Into The 21st Century
- 7 Joe Kelly's Action Comics Run Contains Some Classics
- 5 Kurt Busiek Was Part of A Late 2000s One-Two Superman Punch
- 4 Geoff Johns's Action Comics Is Amazing
- 3 Dan Jurgens Defined Superman in The 1990s
- 2 Otto Binder Blew The Roof Off Superman
- 1 Grant Morrison's Action Comics Is The Highlight of The New 52
Writer/artist John Byrne rebooted Superman for the post-Crisis DC Universe, creating the most popular modern version of the character, which alone is enough to get readers to check it out. Byrne's art is tremendous, and it's certainly one of the best-looking Superman runs ever. However, his '80s Reagan era conservative Superman is a little dated. B...
Elliot S. Maggin worked on a lot of the biggest DC titles of the 1970s and early '80s. Maggin's place in the publisher's history is indisputable, and his time on Action Comics and Superman supplied some truly classic Superman tales. Maggin's time on those books is only nominally a run, writing Action Comics on and off from #420 to 571 and Superman ...
Jeph Loeb made his name in the '90s at Marvel writing X-Force and Cable and at DC doing the Batman Halloween specials with the late Tim Sale, which led to Batman: The Long Halloween and Batman: Dark Victory. Loeb's Superman: For All Seasons, with Sale, showed he had a great take on the Man of Steel, and he moved to Superman (Vol. 2) with issue 151....
Joe Kelly wrote Action Comics from issue 760 to issue 810, working with artists Germán García, Duncan Rouleau, Butch Guice, Pasqual Ferry, and more. Kelly's run is most well known for Action Comics #775, with artists Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo, titled "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, And The American Way," a timeless Superman classic. Kelly ...
Kurt Busiek made his name at Marvel with Thunderbolts, Untold Tales Of Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Avengers. However, his book, Superman: Secret Identity, with artist Stuart Immonen, proved he had the chops for the Man of Steel, and Busiek came onto the Superman books post-Infinite Crisis. Starting on Action Comics and writing issues 837-843, 850, an...
Geoff Johns joined Busiek on the Superman books post-Infinite Crisis, writing Action Comics #837-840, 844-846, 850-851, and 855-873. Johns cemented his place as one of DC's most important writers of the 2000s, working with artists Adam Kubert, Eric Powell, and Gary Frank, even getting his old mentor, director Richard Donner, to co-write "Last Son O...
Writer/artist Dan Jurgens jumped onto Superman (Vol. 2) with issue 57 and stayed until 148, only missing one issue in that time. Jurgens wrote all of those issues and drew most of them, working with artist Ron Frenz on later issues. Jurgens helped come up with "The Death Of Superman," one of DC's biggest stories of the 1990s, and was able to do ama...
Otto Binder made a name for himself on Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Adventures, a book that surpassed Superman's comics in sales. After DC gutted Fawcett in a lawsuit, Binder moved over to the publisher and started writing Superman, redefining the character for the Silver Age. All of those bizarre yet wonderful Superman stories of the time? Binde...
The New 52 gets a lot of deserved flack, but there are some gems. Grant Morrison's Action Comics run, with artists Rags Morales, Andy Kubert, Gene Ha, Travel Foreman, and Ben Oliver, is the most unsung book of the era and arguably the best Superman run of the last forty years. Morrison brought Superman back to his man of the people roots with this ...
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- Superman: The Man of Steel. After Crisis on Infinite Earths, the DC Universe rebooted itself. DC had spent the past several decades building an extensive multiverse but deemed it too confusing and sought to streamline stories to make them more accessible to readers.
- Superman: Birthright. Superman’s origin has been set in stone for a while now, but there is still the occasional attempt to update it. While efforts like Superman: The Man of Steel or Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Superman: Secret Origin have always been lauded, Superman: Birthright may be the most notable modern take by today’s standards.
- Son of Superman. Writers tried for years to make Superman a family man. Though he married Lois Lane in the ‘90s, the editorial reportedly pushed back on the notion of Superman having a kid because they were worried he’d be too unrelatable to readers.
- Superman For All Seasons. In our piece on the best Batman stories, I discussed Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s character-driven mystery story following The Dark Knight in his second year of crime-fighting.
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- All-Star Superman. Grant Morrison and longtime collaborator Frank Quitely teamed up for a 12-issue series outside of main DC Universe continuity to tell a timeless love letter to the entire Superman mythos in All-Star Superman.
- The Man of Steel. After years of writing best-selling stories for Marvel Comics, award-winning scribe Brian Michael Bendis signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics at the end of 2017.
- Superman: Lois and Clark. With the DC Universe completely rebooted by the New 52 publishing initiative in 2011, many characters had their origins and depictions drastically redefined including Superman himself, met with varying levels of fan support.
- Superman: Son of Superman. After an acclaimed, lengthy collaboration on Batman and Robin during the New 52 era, Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason reunited to launch Superman during the DC Rebirth era, paired with his son Jonathan as he developed his own superpowers and crime-fighting alter ego alongside his father.
Jun 5, 2013 · 9. The Death and Return of Superman. As Seen In: Man of Steel #17-26, Superman #73-82, Adventures of Superman #496-505, Action Comics #683-692, Justice League of America #69-70, The Legacy of ...
Apr 23, 2020 · Kryptonite Nevermore (1971) An encapsulation of classic Superman storytelling from the mind of one of the industries greatest veterans (Denny O’Neil and Curt Swan). Essentially, the story revolves around Kryptonite becoming ineffective towards Superman, to the point that he is even able to hold the previously deadly rock, among other things.
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Jul 3, 2024 · The Man of Steel, The Man of Tomorrow, Krypton's Last Son, Clark Kent, Kal-El... Whatever you call him, he's best known as Superman. Here are some lists about him. These are the best comic book story arcs of Superman, ranked by fans. Start reading these stories for a quick Superman primer.
