Zero Hour Promotional Poster by Jon Bogdanove + SPECIAL BONUS ARTWORK BATPOLL!
via bringbackwendellvaughn.tumblr.com Zero Hour Promotional Poster by Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke A promo poster inverting the Superman/Batman proportion...
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 (September 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #37 (September 1994) Zero Hour is here, and so is Batman! And Batman, and Batman, and Batman, and, yes, even Batman! Clark Kent...
Maxima by Don Sparrow (and GIVEAWAY)
BEHOLD, Don Sparrow's finished art for the winning choice of our Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey bonus artwork poll! (If patrons are feeling some deja vu,...
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...
Action Comics Weekly #642 (March 1989)
Action Comics Weekly #642 (March 1989) Superman gets offered a job as a Green Lant– hey, wait a minute, why are we back in 1989?! Is Zero Hour already...
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...
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 2 (August 1994)
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 2 (August 1994) The conclusion to our somewhat messy coverage of this crossover, but to be fair, it was kind of a...
Super Titles Round-Up (August 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (August 1994) This month: Superboy gets wet! Steel gets a new armor! The Eradicator gets sad! Superboy #7 “Worlds Collide” continues,...
Adventures of Superman #515 (August 1994)
Adventures of Superman #515 (August 1994) Massacre in Metropolis, Part 2: the ice cream heist turns fatal! As seen last week, Massacre and his wormy little...
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...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Action Comics Annual #6 (1994)
JOHN BYRNE IS BACK! Mid-'90s Byrne, but still! This Elseworlds tale is set in a timeline in which Krypton exploded centuries earlier than it was supposed to...
Superman: The Man of Steel #36 (August 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #36 (August 1994) “WORLDS COLLIDE” continues! Somewhat out of order, due to the way we’re covering this crossover, but let’s face...
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...
Action Comics #701 (July 1994)
Action Comics #701 (July 1994) “THE FALL OF METROPOLIS,” Finale! The final (for now) battle between Superman and Lex Luthor! Wait, isn’t Luthor practically a...
Adventures of Superman #514 (July 1994)
Adventures of Superman #514 (July 1994) "THE FALL OF METROPOLIS," Part 4! Metropolis is invaded by aliens! And werewolves! And Nazis! And Lois Lane dies! And...
Superman '86 to '99 Chronological Issue Index
Here’s an index of every issue we’ve covered so far in chronological order, just to make it easier for newsletter readers (sign up here!) to find them: 1986...
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...
INTRODUCING THE SUPERMAN '86 TO '99 NEWSLETTER!
INTRODUCING THE SUPERMAN ‘86 TO '99 NEWSLETTER! AKA, the exact same thing as this blog, but in email form! You can subscribe here:...
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 1 (July 1994)
Worlds Collide: The Milestone Side, Month 1 (July 1994) “Worlds Collide” was pretty unusual for a Superman-related crossover event: it only included one of...
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...
Don Sparrow interviews Superman himself! (Well, one of them)
Canadian readers: If you’re lucky enough to be in Saskatoon this weekend, you have an unmissable opportunity to see Don Sparrow, Brandon Routh, and Don...
Superman: The Man of Steel #35 (July 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #35 (July 1994) “WORLDS COLLIDE,” Part 1! And “THE FALL OF METROPOLIS,” Part 2! And a Wonder Woman crossover! And a long-time...
SPECIAL BONUS ARTWORK POLL!
Which Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey look should Don draw?Apokolyptian Armour Hank HenshawPurple Suit MaximaMother Box Armour SupermanSee Results To...
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #3 (June 1994)
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #3 (June 1994) After two issues of build-up, the moment we’ve been waiting for: Superman vs. Doomsday, the rematch! But first,...
NEW TRIANGLE ERA OMNIBUS SERIES ANNOUNCED! HOT DANG!
Via @fortressofbaileytude… NEW TRIANGLE ERA OMNIBUS SERIES ANNOUNCED! HOT DANG! Time to save up those $125, which amounts to roughly nineteen cab rides in...
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...
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Steel Annual #1 (1994)
Steel Annual #1 (1994) Steel's Elseworlds annual may be set during the Civil War era, but it still manages to be one of the most '90s things ever by giving...
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #1 (April 1994)
Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey #1 (April 1994) DOOMSDAY IS COMING… BACK! Superman has been having nightmares about Doomsday, which is the natural...
Hal Jordan pin-up by Stuart Immonen and Karl Kesel
greenlantern94to04: Hal Jordan pin-up by Stuart Immonen and Karl Kesel, from Green Lantern #50 (which I covered last week, if you missed it!). Note that...
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...
Forgot to mention...
Forgot to mention that Adventures of Superman #513’s letter column has someone asking the IMPORTANT questions… They are. (It’s Dreadnaught, though.)
Adventures of Superman #513 (June 1994)
Adventures of Superman #513 (June 1994) “THE BATTLE FOR METROPOLIS,” Part 4! The Death of Project Cadmus! (Well, “death” in comic book terms.) After the...
Superman remains the worst at Christmas presents
superman86to99: Reminder that Superman once gave Batman the most unfortunate Christmas present ever (from World’s Finest by Dave Gibbons and Steve Rude)....
SUPPORTERS ONLY: Justice League America Annual #8 (1994)
Justice League America Annual #8 (1994) Continuing our look at the 1994 Elseworlds annuals with a taste of the Justice League's future, since this issue's...
The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2023)
The Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special (November 2023) Whoa! Some sort of chronal disturbance has thrown us from 1994 to the futuristic year 2023,...
Jackson Guice’s black suit Superman pinup
Jackson Guice’s black suit Superman pinup from this month’s Return of Superman 30th Anniversary Special, which we’re gonna cover in about… oh, 29 years,...
Super Titles Round-Up (June 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (June 1994) This month: Superboy fights Silver Sword (and the Clone Plague)! Steel fights his nephew! Brimstone fights alcoholism!...
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...
Poop Metropolis
Just updated the Green Lantern ‘94 to '04 blog for the first time in, holy crap, three years with a long post about every single Hal Jordan appearance...
Superman: The Man of Steel #34 (June 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #34 (June 1994) “THE BATTLE FOR METROPOLIS,” Part 2! Lex-Men vs. Dubbilex-Men! I know it’s not true, but part of me feels like...
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...
Action Comics #699 (May 1994)
Action Comics #699 (May 1994) “THE BATTLE FOR METROPOLIS” STARTS HERE! Well, not here here, since most of the issue is actually just the setup for the battle...
Super Titles Round-Up (May 1994)
Super Titles Round-Up (May 1994) This month: Superboy gets animated! Supergirl gets even! Steel gets that cool-ass Jon Bogdanove cover up there! Superboy #4...
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...
Art-Watch: Superman #2 (February 1987)
Art-Watch: Superman #2 (February 1987) Hey! Our post for Superman #2, which was originally like four paragraphs long, has been updated with more/better pics,...
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...
Superman #89 (May 1994)
Superman #89 (May 1994) Superman's in space again... again! This time, because he's getting so big that pretty soon he won't even fit on Earth. Last issue,...
Superman: The Man of Steel #33 (May 1994)
Superman: The Man of Steel #33 (May 1994) An unfortunate series of events has turned Superman so grotesquely swole that he now looks like he's, well, a...
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...
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...