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Read the "Man of Steel" miniseries (#1-6) first. Then for the most part you can alternate between "Superman" (starting with #1) and "Action Comics" (starting with #584) with some exceptions: Superman #1-2 are a two-part story. Superman #3, Adventures of Superman #426 and Action Comics #586 make up Superman's part in the "Legends" crossover.
- 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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Byrne's 'The Man of Steel' miniseries seems to be one of the most highly praised and recommended Superman comics, but Byrne continued to write the Superman comics for two years afterwards and yet I don't think I've ever seen anyone recommend any of the subsequent comics.
Highly recommended but I'd suggest you first read Byrne's six-issue Man of Steel miniseries. It retells Superman's origin story in the aftermath of Crisis On Infinite Earths which rebooted and streamlined DC Continuity.
In these enthralling stories, Superman begins his lifelong rivalry with Lex Luthor as the industrialist megalomaniac and the last son of Krypton vie for the heart of Lois Lane and control over Metropolis.
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Jun 1, 2021 · With DC recollecting the rebooted Superman series in new hardcover collections, the second volume of Superman: The Man of Steel sees some of comics’ best names with Byrne, Marv Wolfman,...
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Jan 26, 2021 · My read of the John Byrne run of Superman in the mid 1980s continues. In this volume, Superman takes on the Fearsome Five, a space mummy, Chemo, Mr. Mxyzptlk, the TIme Trapper, Rampage, Sleez, and various other threats to humanity.
