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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:10 pm
by BobBretall
I do believe that any Superman Origin that Johns/Frank do will be a great story, and will no doubt clarify the Superman origin situation for a few years until DC screws it up again.
That being said, I would just rather see more new stories from those guys than another origin, good though it may be. Just my preference.
Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 6:48 pm
by HassanT
BobBretall wrote:I do believe that any Superman Origin that Johns/Frank do will be a great story, and will no doubt clarify the Superman origin situation for a few years until DC screws it up again.
That being said, I would just rather see more new stories from those guys than another origin, good though it may be. Just my preference.
Johns and Frank could be doing the Inferior Five Origin mini and I would get it
I should say that more and more DC puts out information about the Superman line for 2009, I am becoming less concern and more excited about the whole line.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 5:39 am
by atomic99
Hey guys, didn't the weekly Action Comics run in the mid-1980s not have Superman while they were prepping him for the Man of Steel Byrne relaunch? Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember it being an anthology title without him for a few issues.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:25 am
by JohnMayo
atomic99 wrote:Hey guys, didn't the weekly Action Comics run in the mid-1980s not have Superman while they were prepping him for the Man of Steel Byrne relaunch? Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember it being an anthology title without him for a few issues.
It was an anthology title but there was a two page Superman story in each issue.
Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:44 am
by BobBretall
atomic99 wrote:Hey guys, didn't the weekly Action Comics run in the mid-1980s not have Superman while they were prepping him for the Man of Steel Byrne relaunch? Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember it being an anthology title without him for a few issues.
Superman relaunch happened with cover date Jan 1987, with a new Superman #1. That same month saw Action Comics #584, also written/penciled by Byrne.
Action was actually on a hiatus for a couple of months previous to the relaunch, with the Alan Moore "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" story coming out in Superman #423 & Action Comics #583 (cover dated Sept. 1986).
The weekly run of Action actually happened after the Byrne relaunch in Action #601-642 (1988-1989), and Superman appeared in every issue (albeit only in a 2-page story in each). Interesting that there was another hiatus after the end of the weekly run, #642 was cover dated March 1989, and then 643 was July 1989, and they kicked off the "post weekly" era by bringing George Perez onto Action.