Superman #12 (December 1987)
Superman #12 (December 1987) Superman remembers the time in college when he dated a mermaid, only he didn’t know she was a mermaid. I assume/hope that this...
Action Comics #594 (November 1987)
Action Comics #594 (November 1987) Metropolis’ other superhero, Booster Gold, is running a smear campaign about Superman, putting out “Superman sucks”...
Action Comics Annual #1 (1987)
Action Comics Annual #1 (1987) Batman is investigating some vampire attacks in Gotham City that lead him to a small town in South Carolina. There, he comes...
Adventures of Superman #434 (November 1987)
Adventures of Superman #434 (November 1987) Introducing GANGBUSTER! Honest teacher Jose Delgado has had it with these motherfucking thugs in this...
Superman #11 (November 1987)
Superman #11 (November 1987) Superman matches wits with that handsome devil from the fifth dimension, Mister Mxyzptlk, whose superior 5-D brain allows him to...
Adventures of Superman Annual #1 (1987)
Adventures of Superman Annual #1 (1987) This is more like a horror/sci-fi story with Superman thrown in the middle, like that time he guest-starred in The...
Action Comics #593 (October 1987)
Action Comics #593 (October 1987) Part two of Superman’s delightful foray into the porn industry. Last issue, Superman and Big Barda of the New Gods ended up...
Adventures of Superman #433 (October 1987)
Adventures of Superman #433 (October 1987) This issue goes all Magnolia on us, telling five-interconnected stories, each starring a different character. They...
Superman #10 (October 1987)
Superman #10 (October 1987) Superman’s powers go wonky and he starts destroying Metropolis like Henry Cavill in that movie where he plays a lumberjack or...
Action Comics #592 (September 1987)
Action Comics #592 (September 1987) Ah, this one. This issue begins one of the most infamous stories in Superman comics and fiction in general: the tale of...
Adventures of Superman #432 (September 1987)
Adventures of Superman #432 (September 1987) After gang members burn down a building in Metropolis’ poor side, a concerned Lex Luthor, pillar of the...
Superman #9 (September 1987)
Superman #9 (September 1987) It’s the Joker. The Joker is in Metropolis, words on the cover. He’s right behind you. This issue starts with the Joker stealing...
Superman Annual #1 (1987)
Superman Annual #1 (1987) This issue begins with Lois Lane visiting a scientific installation, so you know something is going to blow up soon. In this case,...
Action Comics #591 (August 1987)
Action Comics #591 (August 1987) Superman vs. Superboy! And Krypto the Superdog! And the concept of comic book continuity! I’ve read this issue like five...
Adventures of Superman #431 (August 1987)
Adventures of Superman #431 (August 1987) A dude named Doctor Stratos blackmails the governments of the world with his weather-controlling machine. Stratos,...
Superman #8 (August 1987)
Superman #8 (August 1987) Superman is resting in Smallville after his fight with Rampage when some troublesome time-traveling teenagers called the Legion of...
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...
Adventures of Superman #430 (July 1987)
Adventures of Superman #430 (July 1987) Clark Kent goes through a vocational crisis after missing a bunch of Daily Planet assignments due to his side-job as...
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....
Action Comics #589 (June 1987)
Action Comics #589 (June 1987) Superman and the Green Lantern Corps fight some space tentacles and I’m glad this isn’t a manga. On the last issue of Action,...
Adventures of Superman #429 (June 1987)
Adventures of Superman #429 (June 1987) Clark Kent finds out his ladyfriend Cat Grant has a son named Adam whose father (a Hollywood guy with ties to the...
Superman #6 (June 1987)
Superman #6 (June 1987) “Superman vs. The Huge-Ass Robot Mummy,” Part 2 of 2. Back in Part 1, Superman got knocked out by a giant robot discovered in an...
Action Comics #588 (May 1987)
Action Comics #588 (May 1987) Superman helps Hawkman and Hawkwoman stop an invasion from their own planet of wing-wearing warriors, Thanagar. The Hawkcouple...
Hawkman Crossover Ad
BONUS: A 1987 ad for the issue of Action Comics I’ll cover tomorrow, courtesy of the awesome dcinthe80s Tumblr! Besides posting ads from this era they are...
Adventures of Superman #428 (May 1987)
Adventures of Superman #428 (May 1987) The gangbanger son of the Daily Planet’s editor Perry White, cleverly named Jerry White, gets kidnapped by a mobster...
Superman #5 (May 1987)
Superman #5 (May 1987) “Superman vs. The Huge-Ass Robot Mummy,” Part 1 of 2. Not the actual title, but it should have been. Lois Lane and Clark Kent are...
Action Comics #587 (April 1987)
Action Comics #587 (April 1987) Superman teams up with The Demon, a fearsome creature from the depths of Hell who fights the forces of darkness with the...
Adventures of Superman #427 (April 1987)
Adventures of Superman #427 (April 1987) Superman lifts a tank over his head in an Arab country, as you can see. Said country is Qurac, the one that sent a...
Superman #4 (April 1987)
Superman #4 (April 1987) A guy named Bloodsport has been going around Metropolis, shooting guns and yelling about Vietnam. He’s basically Walter from The Big...
Action Comics #586 (March 1987)
Action Comics #586 (March 1987) Due to a series of wacky circumstances, Superman thinks he’s the son of the evil alien god Darkseid and, accordingly, got a...
Adventures of Superman #426 (March 1987)
Adventures of Superman #426 (March 1987) This is a crazy issue. After falling into a pit of fire in the planet Apokolips (at the end of Superman #3),...
Superman #3 (March 1987)
Superman #3 (March 1987) Superman is transported to the planet Apokolips, a.k.a. the anus of the universe. However, Apokolips’ ruler Darkseid (you know, this...
Action Comics #585 (February 1987)
Action Comics #585 (February 1987) Superman vs. a graveyard. Not the bodies in the cemetery turned into ghosts and zombies singing jazz, but the actual...
Adventures of Superman #425 (February 1987)
Adventures of Superman #425 (February 1987) Continued from Adventures #424: Superman is still fighting those terrorist robots from Qurac, who have combined...
Superman #2 (February 1987)
Superman #2 (February 1987) The cover image above just told you the entire plot of this issue, but let me repeat it for you anyway. After noticing that most...
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...
Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987)
Adventures of Superman #424 (January 1987) Terrorist robots from the Middle-Eastern nation of Qurac attack Metropolis, and they seem to be controlled by a...
Superman #1 (January 1987)
Superman #1 (January 1987) JOHN BYRNE'S EXCITING FIRST ISSUE which is actually his seventh issue, because it continues from his Man of Steel miniseries. In...
The Man of Steel #6 (December 1986)
The Man of Steel #6 (December 1986) Superman goes to Smallville to visit his adoptive parents and ends up running into his real one: a hologram of Jor-El...
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...
The Man of Steel #4 (November 1986)
The Man of Steel #4 (November 1986) Lois Lane and Clark Kent are invited to a party in Lex Luthor’s yatch, which is almost immediately taken hostage by South...
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...
The Man of Steel #2 (October 1986)
The Man of Steel #2 (October 1986) This is the issue where Lois Lane drives her car into the bottom of a river to get her first interview with Superman...
The Man of Steel #1 (October 1986)
The Man of Steel #1 (October 1986) Thus begins my in-depth examination of every fucking Superman continuity comic between 1986 and 1999 (even the ones that...