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Jul 6, 2023 · Even today I think it still holds up as the best Superman comic I’ve read (much better than the inexplicably overrated “All-Star Superman”). It’s not perfect: John Byrne’s dialogue is a little creaky 30 years later, and I wish the story had been more novelistic in its structure (like “Batman: Year One” was) and less episodic.
Following the initial mini-series, the new Superman's adventures continued in a new "Superman" series (starting at a new #1); "Action Comics", which continued its numbering from before, but now featured the new Superman teaming up with other heroes from the DC universe; and "Adventures of Superman", not written/drawn by Byrne but using the same ...
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. It also redefines Superman's relationships with key figures in his life like Lois Lane, Batman, Lex Luthor, and others.
- 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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Second of all, technically, there are years in between the end of the Byrne & Wolfman runs, and the start of the Triangle Era proper, which really only starts with the comic cover-dated January 1991, when Superman # 55 displayed a triangle on the cover containing the numbers, "1991 | 1", indicating that it was the first comic of the year. A helpful way for readers to keep track of the reading ...
Mar 25, 2020 · Why John Byrne's Superman Run Is Still The Best. John Byrne's late-80s run on Superman might just be the Man of Steel at his best. by Hassan Akram. Mar 25, 2020 March 25th, 2020. DC Comics.
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Sep 2, 2021 · It was an event. Not just the novelty of the reboot, but the way it was told. Like you said, it was visually stunning. The characters were actually interesting. This version of Superman had swagger. Lois was smart and sexy and driven. Luthor was chilling. Every week that a Byrne issue came out, it was the first thing on my pile that I would read.
