World's Finest #1-3 (August-October 1990)
World’s Finest #1-3 (August-October 1990) Or Lex Luthor v. the Joker: Dawn of JERKstice. Superman and Batman teaming up is old hat by now, but this is the...
Superman #82 (October 1993)
Superman #82 (October 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! The climax of this 19-part storyline, the entire “Death and Return of Superman” saga, and seven years of...
Adventures of Superman #503 (August 1993)
Adventures of Superman #503 (August 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! After totally destroying Coast City, the Cyborg Superman totally destroys… Superboy. Does it...
Adventures of Superman #488 (March 1992)
Adventures of Superman #488 (March 1992) PANIC IN THE SKY, Part 3 – Warworld wants to invade Earth, so Earth's heroes invade Warworld! Maaaaan, this freaking...
Adventures of Superman #490 (May 1992)
Adventures of Superman #490 (May 1992) THE DRAMATIC RETURN OF JAWAD AL GURDAN! Yes, Clark Kent's "good friend" from… somewhere in the Middle East who...
Justice League America #63-65 (June-August 1992)
Justice League America #63-65 (June-August 1992) Superman and the Justice League go on a galactic road trip! Good news: Guy Gardner decides to bail (both the...
Superman Annual #3 (1991)
Superman Annual #3 (1991) Hey, have you ever wondered what Superman will be doing in the far-flung future of 2001? This issue has the answer! And that answer...
Action Comics #700 (June 1994)
Action Comics #700 (June 1994) “THE BATTLE FALL OF METROPOLIS”! Metropolis falls, quite literally! But, on the bright side, so does Lex Luthor, because Lois...
Superman: The Man of Steel #14 (August 1992)
Superman: The Man of Steel #14 (August 1992) SUPERMAN AND ROBIN VERSUS BATMAN! As in, a man who turns into a bat! As in, a vampire! Yeah, the real Batman...
Superman #59 (September 1991)
Superman #59 (September 1991) Superman and Lois Lane go sit up on a mountain and talk for six hours. It is one of the best Superman issues ever. The Linear...
Action Comics #691 (September 1993)
Action Comics #691 (September 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! The Superman in Black and the black Superman (Steel) infiltrate the giant mega-fortress made by...
Superman #73 (November 1992)
Superman #73 (November 1992) The return of Waverider, the Linear Men, and time travel fuckery in general! Clark Kent is having a delightfully awkward double...
Superman #93 (September 1994)
Superman #93 (September 1994) ZERO HOUR CROSSOVER! Due to the time-related shenanigans going on around the DC Universe, Superman meets his Kryptonian parents...
The Man of Steel #3 (November 1986)
The Man of Steel #3 (November 1986) Superman goes to Gotham City to arrest Batman for being a violent vigilante, because apparently Supes thinks he has a...
Superman: The Man of Steel #32 (April 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #32 (April 1994) Bizarro’s World, Part 4! In which Bizarro’s horniness for Lois Lane proves to be his undoing. Superman is taking...
Superman: The Man of Steel #23 (July 1993)
Superman: The Man of Steel #23 (July 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! In this issue: Steel vs. Superboy! I mean, “Superman" vs. "Superman". The Man of Steel is...
Superman #81 (September 1993)
Superman #81 (September 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! The secret origin of the Cyborg Superman! We find out that the genocidal robot guy posing as the dearly...
Action Comics #678 (June 1992)
Action Comics #678 (June 1992) The ACTUALLY TOTALLY REAL (for real this time) origin of Lex Luthor II! As you might recall, the good, generous and sexy Lex...
Action Comics #650 (February 1990)
Action Comics #650 (February 1990) ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Several short stories, loosely connected by the running theme of how others see Superman: In space,...
Superman #26 (December 1988)
Superman #26 (December 1988) Superman versus a voodoo killer, and also aliens, and also himself! (So, more aliens.) Since Superman #20, Maggie Sawyer and her...
Adventures of Superman #497 (December 1992)
Adventures of Superman #497 (December 1992) Superman and Doomsday punch the crap out of each other! Maxima helps (Doomsday). Last time we saw Superman, he...
Action Comics #668 (August 1991)
Action Comics #668 (August 1991) SUPERMAN VERSUS THE GHOST OF LEX LUTHOR! But not his literal ghost: more like his legacy as Metropolis’ most beloved...
Super Titles Round-Up (September 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (September 1994) This month: Zero Hour! ZERO HOUR! Oh, and Superman gets possessed by Hitler. Superboy #8 Superboy vs. Superboy! You...
Superman: The Man of Steel #10 (April 1992)
Superman: The Man of Steel #10 (April 1992) PANIC IN THE SKY, Part 5 – A hero dies! Who could it possibly be?! You'll just have to read on to find out. (Or...
Adventures of Superman #502 (July 1993)
Adventures of Superman #502 (July 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! As you might have gathered from the cover, this issue is about Superboy (who thinks he’s...
Adventures of Superman #442 (July 1988)
Adventures of Superman #442 (July 1988) Continued from Superman #19! An alien named Psi-Phon has stolen Superman’s powers and transferred them to his pal...
Adventures of Superman #512 (May 1994)
Adventures of Superman #512 (May 1994) FINALLY: The climax of the Super-Superman saga, which was getting about as bloated as Superman himself in this issue’s...
Action Comics #692 (October 1993)
Action Comics #692 (October 1993) In this issue: Superman goes to the doctor and finds out why he’s not dead anymore! But, before that, he’s clearing some of...
Superman #88 (April 1994)
Superman #88 (April 1994) Bizarro’s World, Finale! The cover above is actually pretty misleading: Bizarro doesn't punch Superman in this issue, but he does...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #3 (1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel Annual #3 (1994) It's been a while since we've had a Patreon-only post, so here are four in a row! The theme for DC's 1994 annuals...
Action Comics #702 (August 1994)
Action Comics #702 (August 1994) Bloodsport (not the black one, the anti-black one) returns, which means this is gonna be another distressingly violent...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superboy #1 (February 1990)
Superboy #1 (February 1990) Okay, so we're at the point in the timeline where the awesome Kesel/Grummett Superboy series started, so let's talk about... the...
Superman #34 (August 1989)
Superman #34 (August 1989) Skyhook, the only Superman villain who is a hideous flying child abductor, is back! Finally. Remember like twenty issues ago when...
A Wrong Righted! (A Baldy Award Tale)
by Don Sparrow We don't often talk about the letter columns on the blog, but a feature of the letter columns from 1990 to 2001 was that one letter per issue...
The Death and Return of Superman (Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis, 1994)
The Death and Return of Superman (Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis, 1994) In 1994, Blizzard Entertainment of Warcraft fame released a video game adaptation of...
Adventures of Superman #449 (December 1988)
Adventures of Superman #449 (December 1988) Superman is missing! Will he ever turn up? Of course he will, because the cover image spoiled that part for us....
Action Comics #663 (March 1991)
Action Comics #663 (March 1991) “Time and Time Again!” Phase Two – Superman quits superheroing and joins a circus in the 1940’s. Last time we saw him,...
Action Comics #686 (February 1993)
Action Comics #686 (February 1993) FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, Part 6! The quest for Superman's corpse continues! The cover asks "Who's buried in Superman's TOMB?"...
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #2 (May 1994)
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #2 (May 1994) At last, we find out Doomsday’s secret origin! And then kinda wish we didn’t, because it’s pretty gnarly. In...
Superman in "Ex-Machina" by Paul Chadwick (1989)
about-faces: SUPERMAN in “Ex-Machina”By Paul Chadwick (creator of the beautiful series Concrete) from Christmas with the Super-Heroes #2 (1988) Here’s a...
Superman #92 (August 1992)
Superman #92 (August 1992) Massacre, a big red alien who goes around the universe punching people, comes to Earth to steal some ice cream… and punch...
Superman: The Man of Steel #11 (May 1992)
Superman: The Man of Steel #11 (May 1992) So begins the event that changed the DC Universe forever: FLASHPOINT! Yes, Flashpoint, the fat guy from another...
Superman #66 (April 1992)
Superman #66 (April 1992) PANIC IN THE SKY, Part 6 – It's the grand finale of this cosmic saga, and Superman and his allies have been holding that exact same...
Adventures of Superman #473 (December 1990)
Adventures of Superman #473 (December 1990) Superman teams up with Green Lantern and Green Lantern. This issue is called “Rings of Fire” because both Green...
Action Comics #676 (April 1992)
Action Comics #676 (April 1992) Someone tries to murder Lex Luthor II, while Superman tries to murder a piano! (And succeeds.) That someone is Hellgrammite,...
Action Comics #584 (January 1987)
Action Comics #584 (January 1987) This issue continues the time-honored tradition of making Superman look like a dick on the cover, and then revealing inside...
Action Comics #595 (December 1987)
Action Comics #595 (December 1987) Here it is, finally. The Death of Superman. When the Justice League can’t defeat a murder machine called Doomsday,...
Action Comics #690 (August 1993)
Action Comics #690 (August 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! The secret origin of the Eradi– I mean, the Last Son of Krypton! OK, so he’s actually the Eradicator....
Adventures of Superman Annual #3 (1991)
Adventures of Superman Annual #3 (1991) Lois Lane dies, and Superman mourns her by making out with the villainess Maxima! Not literally on top of Lois’...
Superman #75 (January 1993)
Superman #75 (January 1993) I don't even have to tell you what this issue is about, because statistically speaking, you or someone you knew owned it. And if...