Episode 804: The Greatest Bronze-Age Superman Stories, Part 2
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English - February 29, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutes - 70.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBooks Arts fantagraphics idw image marvel vertigo boom comics comix darkhorse indie Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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!
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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
Comics referred to in this episode are:
Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man Superman and Spider-Man World of Krypton #1-3 (of 3) DC Comics Presents #1-4, 26-29, 36 DC Comics Presents Annual #1 Superman Annual #9 The Phantom Zone #1-4 (of 4)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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