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The End of the Arrowverse: No more 'Superman & Lois'

Here's the news from TVLine: "Superman and Lois Ending With Season 4"

I can't I've liked everything about Superman & Lois (like the ampersand in the title, and can't somebody buy Tyler Hoechlin a razor?), I enjoyed the show when it was good and played

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Silver Sightings: The Three Wives of Superman!

Though I didn't know it at the time, Superman Family #164 (My'74) was its first issue as, due to a paper shortage and falling sales, DC combined Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane and Superman's Cousin Supergirl into a bi-mon

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SUPERMAN VS SUB-MARINER (1939)

Place your bets in one corner we have the Action Ace, the Man of Steel, SUPERMAN and in the other, we have the Avenging Son, the Deep Sea Dynamo, the SUB-MARINER!! Who comes up on top in 1939?

Remember, Superman is not all-powerful here. He has limit

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Superman's birthday

Whilst hunting thru the internet looking for comic covers to post relating to the letter "K", I came across this extremely interesting posting about the actual date of Superman's birthday. I'd always assumed (foolishly, it now seems) that Superman wa

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - !!! SPOILERS !!!

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SPOILER: Superman 38

There's a big development that happens in Superman #38 -- even moreso than the new power that's been hyped (the Super Flare) and the new costume that's revealed (a slight tweak on the New 52 version, bringing it a little more in line with the pre-Fla

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Fan of Bronze: Superman Meets....Funnyman???

After World War II, Superman creators JERRY SEIGEL & JOE SHUSTER left DC/National and rejoined their original editor Vin Sullivan at his Magazine Enterprises company. In January 1948, they published Funnyman #1 about the adventures of comedian Larry

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Superman's Missed Opportunity at Love?

In Superman #304 (O'76), we are introduced to DOCTOR JENET KLYBURN, a beautiful, red-headed scientist attached to STAR Labs. She was brilliant and helpful to the Man of Steel and Superman came to depend on her for support.

But was she intended to be

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A Comic a Day: Action Comics #546

Action Comics #546

August 1983

Cover art by: Gil Kane

Story: Showdown!

Writer: Marv Wolfman

Art: Gil Kane

Superman is trying to figure out just what is going on with this new version of Brainiac. His supercomputer isn't any help at all, so he leav

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A Comic a Day: Adventures of Superman #516

Adventures of Superman #516

September 1994

Cover art by: Barry Kitson, & Ray McCarthy

Story: The Hero of Metropolis

Writer: Karl Kesel

Pencils: Peter Krause

Inks: Jackson Guice

This is the Adventures of Superman series' Zero Hour crossover. It has

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A Comic a Day: World's Finest #177

World's Finest #177

August 1968

Cover art: Ross Andru & Mike Esposito

Story: Duel of the Crime Kings!

Writer: Jim Shooter

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: Mike Esposito

Lex Luthor is stuck in Gotham Jail (I wonder why he is in that jail?), and fashions a

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A Comic a Day: World's Finest #159

World's Finest #159

August 1966

Cover art: Curt Swan & George Klein

Story: The Cape and Cowl Crooks

Writer: Edmond Hamilton

Pencils: Curt Swan

Inks: George Klein

I dunno. This comic just didn't work for me. I was always a big fan of Edmond Hamilto

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Kryptonian Glyph

You can now create your own Kryptonian Glyph at: http://glyphcreator.manofsteel.com/

I am from house Zar:

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A Comic a Day: Supeman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #87

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #87

September 1965

Cover art: Curt Swan & Sheldon Moldoff

Story: The Arena of Doom

Writer: Jerry Siegel

Art: Al Plastino

Hey Superman learns that Brainiac is a robot! After getting Brainiac to put Jimmy Olsen's brain bac

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Superman/Wonder Woman Ongoing Announced

IGN is reporting that October will see the debut of a new Superman/Wonder Woman ongoing by Charles Soule and Tony Daniel.

I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, Soule is a good writer (or at least, I like his Swamp Thing), and Daniel has greatly i

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Superman's 75th Anniversary

When Superman inaugurated ACTION COMICS with its first issue I always thought he was instantly recognized by the company as a big draw. Of course, he was an unknown quantity, being the first comic book superhero.  It turns out that 3/4 of the first e

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Silver Sightings: The Composite Superman

Over at Mister Silver Age's 12 Questions thread, Kirk G asked about the Composite Superman which inspired me suddenly to do write about World's Finest Comics #142 (Ju'64) which I first read when it was reprinted in World's Finest #223 (Ju'74), ten ye

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One Week Only: It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman!

New York City Center Encores is staging a revival of 1966's musical It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! from March 20-24. I never thought I'd get a chance to see this... and yet here it comes, next month! 

Don't know which day I'm going yet

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A heads up and a rumor...

First: From all reports, AVX: Versus #6 (hey, I don't make the titles up) out today is THE book to pick up as it's a kind of What The?! parody of the whole event with tons of fun stuff.  This and the Doop story in Wolverine and the X-Men may be the b

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Fan of Bronze: Superman & Wonder Woman....AGAIN!

There has been much media buzz about this:

But before there was Lois Lane # 93 (Jl'69), Lois Lane #136 (F'74) AND Action Comics #600 (My'88). The forgotten story though seems to be

And that's what I'm going to talk about!

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