Today’s episode is the first 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.
Kryptonite No More! Must There Be A Superman! The Great One and the Greatest of All Time! Whiz Wagons! Clones! The Sweet Science! The Wedding of the Century! Hippie Bikers! More quotemarks than you can shake a stick at! All that and more on today’s episode!
[This is episode 803 in a series.]
CHAPTERS
00:00 – Intro
03:42 – What does “Bronze Age Superman” mean to you?
06:32 – Which Superman do you prefer?
10:27 – Superman v1 #232
11:17 – Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen v1 #133-139 + 141 and Forever People v1 #1
14:08 – Kirby Faces
20:42 – Superman v1 #233-242
26:00 – Individual Moments
30:07 – Superman v1 #247
33:44 – Superman vs Muhammad Ali
37:36 – “Gloriously goofy and absolutely earnest”
42:25 – The Cover
44:39 – Wrap-up / Outro
AVAILABILITY
Superman v1 #232, 247, and Action Comics v1 #484 are not available digitally as individual issues. Action Comics v1 #484 is available digitally in the Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years and Action Comics: 80 Years of Superman: The Deluxe Edition collections. Superman v1 #247 and the main story from #232 (originally from Superman v1 #141) are available digitally in the Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years collection.
Superman vs Muhammad Ali is available digitally but not through DC Universe Infinite.
The rest of the comics are available as individual issues or in the Kryptonite No More, Jack Kirby’s Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, or Jack Kirby’s The Forever People collections on DC Universe Infinite.