Feb 29, 2024
Today’s episode is the second of three looking at the best Superman stories of the Seventies to the mid-Eighties with the DC3Cast’s very own Vince Ostrowski! Vince & Greg dive into what makes the Superman of this era different than his more modern incarnation and start giving you gem after gem of Super-Tales of the post-Silver Age / pre-Crisis Man of Steel.
Intercompany crossovers! Intracompany crossovers! History lessons! Horror on a superhero scale! All that plus a REALLY big missile and more on today’s episode!
[This is episode 805 in a series.]
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CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
02:24 – Overview
05:44 – Superman vs Spider-Man + Spider-Man vs Superman
12:40 – DC Comics Presents (v1) #1-4
23:54 – DC Comics Presents Annual #1
27:32 – Superman Special (v1) 1 + Superman Annual (v1) #9
30:23 – World of Krypton (v1) + The Phantom Zone (v1)
39:53 – Closing Thoughts
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AVAILABILITY
The Phantom Zone and World of Krypton minis, as well as the DC Comics Presents issues, are available as individual issues on DC Universe Infinite.
Superman Annual #9 is not available digitally or collected in any English-language reprint.
The two DC/Marvel crossovers are also unavailable digitally, though they were reprinted at standard comic book size in both the Crossover Classics vol. 1 collection from 1992 and as individual reprints in 1996. They will both be included in the upcoming DC Versus Marvel Omnibus, and presumably available digitally at some point afterwards.
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Go to the episode page at: https://robotsfromtomorrow.net/greatest-bronze-age-superman-1/