My Favorite #Superman Stories

World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, right, is shown at a press conference in New York, January 31, 1978, with promoter Don King, left, and Herbert Muhammad, center, to plug a comic book in which he beats Superman. Ali holds a copy of the comic book. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

A #YouTube channel asked. My response was so long and detailed that I decided to list in there and keep it for myself. 🙂

1) #AllStarSuperman

(OCTOBER 20th UPDATE:)

2) #Superman vs. #MuhammadAli #SupermanvsMuhammadAli (second only by a whisker :))

3) #WhateverHappenedToTheManofTomorrow

4) #TheManWhoHasEverything

5) #KingdomCome

6) #SupermanvAtomMan #SupermanvsAtomMan (original radio version, not movie serial)

7) Apokolips….Now”/”Legacy” from #SupermanTAS

8) #Hereafter (both parts) from #JusticeLeagueTAS

9) #Alive / #Destroyer from #JusticeLeagueUnlimitedTAS

10) #SupermanForAllSeasons

(OCTOBER 21th UPDATE:)

10) “Superman” (first of the 1940s animated film shorts)

11) “Superman’s Wife” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman

12) “We Have A Lot To Talk About,” #LoisandClarkTheNewAdventuresofSuperman3x1

13) “The Wedding of Superman,” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman

14) “Terror from the Phantom Zone,” from #Superfriends Season 3 (first segment of hour which contained #ChallengeoftheSuperfriends)

15) “Universe of Evil,” from #Superfriends Season 4

16) #Superman No. 1 from 1939

17) #1940sSundaynewspapercomicstrips

HONORARY STORY: #SupermanforallSeasons

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SEPTEMBER 22nd UPDATE:

Today Is #Superman #SupermanDay! #DCStudios Showcase Official Podcast | Episode 10 | #Max

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https://apnews.com/article/superman-comics-movies-religious-themes-2fb936bb6c234dc692f3024430678beb

#Superman #SupermanMovie Teaser Trailer

This had me at the doggy :)…….

…..and that #JamesGunn has proven he would take (atmospherically, I see) from the masterwork below. #Supermanmovie #Krypto #KryptotheSuperDog #AllStarSuperman

Asante Sana, #MilestoneMedia Artist Mark (M.D.) Bright, 69

This is truly sad news. He was the artist for Icon, who, despite being a conservative in his first incarnation, was perhaps my favorite Milestone superhero!

Here are some obits and here is his Wiki.

“Meanwhile, At The Hall of Justice….” Fifty Years Ago Today……

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…..Saturday mornings on ABC became appointment television for millions of 1970s children across America. (All this and Scooby-Doo and Schoolhouse Rock, too!)

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Oh, an important societal note:

If you want to see a 1973 future-forecast prediction of Amazon.com, streaming services allowing people to stay home, etc., please find and watch all of the first-season episode “Professor Goodfellow’s G.E.E.C.” Two small excerpts:

A Very Belated 100-Word Review Of (The Sadly,-Now-On-Streaming-Because-It-Didn’t-Make-Enough-Movies-Money) “Black Adam”

The magic word is….uneven

It’s unfortunate that the tension between 1990s superhero-film cheesiness and 2022 superhero-film coolness makes this effort implode. A post-COP27 viewing allowed more sensitivity to how Egyptians oppress themselves with the West’s help. Too bad the film quickly traded in that theme for a third-act battle with a Hellboy knockoff and some fake AMC Walkers. God bless his soul, Pierce Brosnan, 30 years distant from the start of his ’90s James Bond, elevated Black Adam when he could (with fine assists from Aldis Hodge) but couldn’t save it. It’s not hard to see why few wanted a piece of this Rock.

re: Milestone Comics’ “Icon and Rocket” Revival: Reginald Hudlin Killed Superman In The Crib! LOL!

Fighting The Power, for-real-for-real this time

Reginald Hudlin’s writing style remains blatant and strident by half. But as a former full-set Icon/Static/Hardware Milestone Comics collector (sadly, lost them in a move 😦 ), I must admit I much prefer his style to the comparatively accommodationist Milestone founder Dwayne McDuffie!

Six issues in and you win, Mr. Hudlin: the 19th-century enslaved Arnus as a Nat Turner (!) character and present-day free Augustus with a fine-ass sista amazon at his side and an assassin to hunt is much more appealing. And he had the assassin, an alien hired by the U.S. government to kill other aliens, kill a certain white infant recently adopted in 1939 by a white Kansas farm couple!

I doubt this version of Icon will be Clarence Thomas’ favorite! LMAO!!!! I’m in for the entire hardcover run! Thanks to DC/Milestone for bringing back my non-Wakandan superhero comic favorites!

This Marvel Zombie Is In Deep Denial About This Being His Favorite Superhero TV Show [Update: Not Named “Ms. Marvel”] :)

#supermanandlois #superman&lois

Lana (finding out that Clark is Superman and talking about how he took his sweet time coming back to Smallville after he abandoned her to find his way to the cape): Did you ever love me?

Clark: Oh, Lana, of course I did.

Lana: (PAUSE) Just not enough.

I was determined to hate this show when it premiered and initially I was successful. A Superman TV narrative without Metropolis, The Daily Planet, etc.? A re-tread of Smallville? Superman with a brother? No. This ain’t the Thor movies.

But almost two full seasons in and after me pretty much memorizing Season 1, it’s clear this is the best Superman TV show ever. And that’s not easy, since there’s 70 years’ worth of truth-justice-American-way-TV to evaluate (including the very-good, just canceled homage show Naomi). The message of this well-written, well-photographed show–if you don’t take care of your family, every part of it, and do the hard work of sustaining that care every day, your family and you will fall apart–is clearly articulated by its expert use of nearly 100 years of Superman lore.

Lana will heal because she’s not jealous of Lois; she has her own beautiful and loving family to fix. And that’s the point of this show. Everyone’s busy keeping their family foundation solid. It be hard.

The best compliment I can give this show is that the only Marvel TV shows I ever put on loop are Disney+’s WandaVision followed by Daredevil. So for the CW’s Superman and Lois, a proud and strong DC product, to join that ranking is fantastic.

On This “Free Comic Book Day,” We Honor And Thank George Perez

One out of every 10 classic superhero graphic novels I own is done by him. A life of extraordinary achievement by a man who, from all public accounts, was a nice, kind person.

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