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Continue reading →: Legends #1 – On this date 40 years agoLegends #1Released August 7, 1986 John Ostrander – StoryLen Wein – WriterJohn Byrne – PencillerKarl Kesel – InkerTom Ziuko – ColoristSteve Haynie – LettererMike Gold – Editor With the success of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. In fact, the project that eventually became LEGENDS started…
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Continue reading →: Reader question – How do the Omnibus Collections compare to the print issues?We have our first reader question (sorta)! Last week in the post on THE MAN OF STEEL #4, regular commentor Dave Thomer and I ended up in a conversation about how some of the digital copies have less definition on the inking than the print issues. It sparked this remark…
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Continue reading →: The Man of Steel #4 – On this date 40 years agoThe Man of Steel #4Released July 31, 1986 John Byrne – Writer & PencillerDick Giordano – InkerTom Ziuko – ColoristJohn Costanza – LettererAndy Helfer – Editor As the cover indicates, this issue centers on the introduction of the new, Post-Crisis Lex Luthor. But Byrne opts for a little build-up before…
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Continue reading →: The REAL first appearance of Post-Crisis Superman: Booster Gold #6 & 7If there’s one creator who is most synonymous with the Post-Crisis Era of Superman – even more than its initiator, John Byrne – it’s probably Dan Jurgens. Dan had the honor of drawing the actual death of Superman #75 and even though many creators from that era have participated in…
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Continue reading →: Who’s Who – Magpie
I can’t believe Magpie rated a Who’s Who. They must have thought she’d recur more frequently than she did.
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Continue reading →: The Man of Steel #3 – On this date 40 years agoThe Man of Steel #3Released July 17, 1986 John Byrne – Writer & PencillerDick Giordano – InkerTom Ziuko – ColoristJohn Costanza – LettererAndy Helfer – Editor I didn’t realized until I was doing research for this post that this issue is technically the debut of the Post-Crisis Batman. I mentioned…
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Continue reading →: Who’s Who – Lois Lane
During the late 80s and early 90s, DC published several volumes of WHO’S WHO. Think of it like an encyclopedia or a handbook of DC characters. Each entry usually consisted of an original image of the character, Personal Data like name, first appearance and vital statistics, History, and their Powers…
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Continue reading →: Super-Stats: Artists by Title
While I was compiling last week’s posts, I thought it would be interesting to do some tables that showed the regular artist shift on each individual title during the Post-Crisis Era. It’s a great way to see all the comings and goings. First up is SUPERMAN. One notable fact is…
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Continue reading →: Super-Stats: Jon Bogdanove
Jon Bogdanove’s write-up is likely to be more brief than some of the others, but for a rather notable reason – he’s the only long-running Triangle Era Superman penciller who stayed on one title for the entire length of his run. Jon launched SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL with Issue…
Hello,
I’m Adam Mallinger
I’m a lifelong Superman fan who got to live his dream in 2020 when I was hired on the CW show SUPERMAN & LOIS as Writers’ Assistant. In my second season there, I was promoted to Staff Writer and I remained on staff through seasons 2 and 3. During my time there I wrote one episode in each of the four seasons and co-wrote the SUPERMAN & LOIS comic.
I also used to blog and tweet under the name The Bitter Script Reader. I also wrote the book MICHAEL F-ING BAY: THE UNHERALDED GENIUS IN MICHAEL BAY’S FILMS under that name.
I started this blog as a tribute to my favorite era of Superman, the Post-Crisis incarnation also often referred to as “The Triangle Era.”
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