SUPPORTERS ONLY: Superman Annual #6 (1994)
Superman Annual #6 (1994) WHAT IF... Superman's rocket fell in the middle of a jungle in the 19th century? In other words, what if Superman was Tarzan? Or...
Superman #35 (September 1989)
Superman #35 (September 1989) Two stories for the price of one! Neither of them features Superman, though: one is about Brainiac and the other about Morgan...
Superman #46 (August 1990)
Superman #46 (August 1990) Superman vs. Terra-Man, the environmentalist supervillain, and his robot cowboys. Also starring Jade and Obsidian, the brother and...
Superman: The Man of Steel #31 (March 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #31 (March 1994) The plague hits Metropolis! The clone plague, that is. Not as in "man, there are a lot of clones in this comic...
Justice League America #66 & Annual #6 (September 1992)
Justice League America #66 & Annual #6 (September 1992) Superman is forced to fight other superheroes in two unconnected stories that came out within a month...
The Man of Steel #5 (December 1986)
The Man of Steel #5 (December 1986) Lex Luthor tries to make a perfect duplicate of Superman (wouldn’t it just punch Luthor and throw him in jail?), but the...
Metropolis Mailbag: Brainiac comics?
Anonymous asked: Wow. I know now, after reading your blog, that I practically know squat about Superman! But it is lots of fun reading you, so thanks! Can...
Super Titles Round-Up (July 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (July 1994) This month: Superboy collides with the Parasite! Steel collides with Hardware! This blog collides with the Green Lantern...
Reign of the Supermen Sketches
Original designs for the Superman pretenders, from the bonus materials on the recent Reign of the Supermen collection! For those following the story for the...
Superman #91 (July 1994)
Superman #91 (July 1994) "THE FALL OF METROPOLIS," Part 3! Superman vs. giant city-destroying robots, although the real villain in this story is… the greed...
Action Comics #684 (December 1992)
Action Comics #684 (December 1992) Doomsday discovers professional wrestling! The DC Universe will never be the same. After watching the entire Justice...
Action Comics #673 (January 1992)
Action Comics #673 (January 1992) FEATURING HELLGRAMMITE! For literally one page! A page, I should mention, that doesn't even have Superman in it....
Adventures of Superman #495 (October 1992)
Adventures of Superman #495 (October 1992) Superman helps some space hippies get their baby back from Space Hitler! Meaning Darkseid, of course. Like all...
Action Comics #667 (July 1991)
Action Comics #667 (July 1991) The ultimate showdown with (this particular incarnation of) the Eradicator! Don’t let the cover fool you: it’s Professor...
Adventures of Superman #510 (March 1994)
Adventures of Superman #510 (March 1994) Bizarro’s World, Part 2! Bizarro has kidnapped Lois Lane and taken her to a warped replica of Metropolis he built in...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Adventures of Superman Annual #6 & Superboy Annual #1 (1994)
Adventures of Superman Annual #6 & Superboy Annual #1 (1994) Our look at the 1994 Elseworlds annuals continues with the tale of the SUPER SEVEN. That sounds...
Superman #90 (June 1994)
Superman #90 (June 1994) “THE BATTLE FOR METROPOLIS,” Part 3! Things are BOOMING in Metropolis! Last issue ended with Lex Luthor (we can probably drop the...
Action Comics #590 (July 1987)
Action Comics #590 (July 1987) For the second time in one month, there’s an accident in a place Lois Lane is visiting. OK, now I’m sure she’s part of some...
Superman #64 (February 1992)
Superman #64 (February 1992) Lex Luthor has trapped Superman's friends in a virtual world riddled with fog and crappy graphics, and now Superman must– uh,...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Elseworlds: Old Man Superman (or: Kamandi: At Earth's End)
Elseworlds: Old Man Superman (or: Kamandi: At Earth's End) In the '90s, DC released a bunch of alternate-reality Elseworlds specials, which asked the...
Action Comics #596 (January 1988)
Action Comics #596 (January 1988) After Superman accidentally kills half the city of Smallville by defeating a Manhunter robot called Dr. Whitney who was...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: 45 Things I Learned by Reading the "Death of Superman" Novel (Part 1)
45 Things I Learned by Reading the "Death of Superman" Novel (Part 1) "Death of Superman" is a classic comic about Superman punching a monster for like 100...
Agent Liberty #1 (1992)
Agent Liberty #1 (1992) The secret origin of Agent Liberty! If you were wondering! This one-shot special explains that Liberty was once CIA operative...
Superman: The Man of Steel #28 (December 1993)
Superman: The Man of Steel #28 (December 1993) SUPERMAN VS. NUCLEAR WASTE! No, this isn’t a very special issue about the environment: “Nuclear Waste” is a...
Metropolis Mailbag: Death and Reign animated movies?
pharohbacon asked: Hey Max and Don. Just found your site and I am really loving it! I'm curious if you've seen "The Death of Superman" and "The Reign of the...
Adventures of Superman #485 (December 1991)
Adventures of Superman #485 (December 1991) "Blackout" Conclusion, a.k.a. HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THAT JERRY ORDWAY COVER. That is awesome, as is the rest of this...
Adventures of Superman #499 (February 1993)
Adventures of Superman #499 (February 1993) FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, Part 5! Someone stole Superman's dead body! Who could it be?! (Yes, we already know who it...
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3 (September 1994)
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #3 (September 1994) Our eternal September continues as we reach Zero Hour #3 (the second issue), a.k.a. “The One With All The Elder...
Super Titles Round-Up (February 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (February 1994) This month: the Superman family nearly doubles! Plus, some pointless tie-ins. Superboy #1 (February 1994) Superboy...
Action Comics Weekly #601-641 (May 1988-March 1989)
Action Comics Weekly #601-641 (May 1988-March 1989) Superman comes across a cult of people in California who worship him like a god. That would be weird...
A Guide to Superman '86-'99 Comics Collections (Part 1)
A Guide to Superman ‘86-'99 Comics Collections (Part 1) This was gonna be a short post to gush about the fact that DC just announced the “Sinbad Contract”...
Superman #50 (December 1990)
Superman #50 (December 1990) KRISIS OF THE KRIMSON KRYPTONITE: KONCLUSION! The one with Superman’s engagement! And also the one with Superman vs. a massive...
Adventures of Superman #483 (October 1991)
Adventures of Superman #483 (October 1991) PIANO PARTY AT BIBBO'S! This issue is about every minor supporting character in the Superman comics coming...
Superman #78 (June 1993)
Superman #78 (June 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! The grand debut of the Cyborg Superman, the one that looks like Superman's mom was having an affair with...
Adventures of Superman #508 (January 1994)
Adventures of Superman #508 (January 1994) Superman teams up with the Challengers of the Unknown, who are like the Fantastic Four but, uh, less Fantastic....
Superman #7 (July 1987)
Superman #7 (July 1987) Lois Lane is visiting a laboratory where scientists are working on a new source of energy, and of course the whole place explodes....
Metropolis Mailbag: Doomsday's origin?
@imatlasarrestmeplease said in reply to yesterday's post (Doomsday origin spoilers ahead, for our readers living in 1992): “Theory: Doomsday’s survival...
Action Comics #655 (July 1990)
Action Comics #655 (July 1990) In this issue: Lois Lane jumps on top of trucks and kicks all sorts of ass (with a little help from Superman). This story...
Action Comics #698 (April 1994)
Action Comics #698 (April 1994) Superman vs. an army of muscular, exploding Lex Luthors! And also… himself, because his newly enhanced powers are so out of...
Action Comics #643 (July 1989)
Action Comics #643 (July 1989) Superman is back on Earth! In fact, he’s so happy to be back home after his long exile in space, that the he could hug Jimmy...
World of Smallville #3 (June 1988)
World of Smallville #3 (June 1988) IN THIS ISSUE: Baby torture! By space robots! Clark Kent and Lana Lang are in a bank in Smallville, for some reason (I...
Secret Origins #49 (June 1990)
Secret Origins #49 (June 1990) The secret origin of Project Cadmus! Or not so secret since we already found out about it in Superman Annual #2, but this does...
Superman #27 (January 1989)
Superman #27 (January 1989) Guardian vs. Gangbuster! Fun fact: At first sight this looks like the rare Superman cover that doesn’t feature Superman in it,...
Action Comics #689 (July 1993)
Action Comics #689 (July 1993) REIGN OF THE SUPERMEN! Featuring the return of a major thought-dead character from these pages: Pa Kent, who was in a hospital...
Action Comics #598 (March 1988)
Action Comics #598 (March 1988) Hey, that’s a neat cover. The issue itself is basically a backdoor pilot for Checkmate, DC’s then-new espionage series, but...
Adventures of Superman #450 (January 1989)
Adventures of Superman #450 (January 1989) ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! To mark this special occasion, in this issue Superman realizes he’s crazy and goes to live in...
Adventures of Superman #476 (March 1991)
Adventures of Superman #476 (March 1991) “Time and Time Again!” Phase One – Superman fights a living embodiment of ‘90s comics! A mysterious part-robot...
Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (December 1992)
Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (December 1992) DOOMSDAY HAS ARRIVED. And he hates little birds. Yes, that's how Blorch is made. I'm never having Ukranian...
New '90s Superman Collections Announced!
New '90s Superman Collections Announced! The Collected Editions blog reports that two new '90s-centric Superman collections have been spotted on Amazon: one...
Legends of the World's Finest #1-3 (1994)
Legends of the World's Finest #1-3 (1994) A sequel to the classic World's Finest miniseries (the one where Superman gives Batman a VHS copy of Zorro for...