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Superman Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber Top 20 Best Superman Comics of All Time Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Superman Phantom Zone by Steve Gerber Top 20 best Superman comics of all time. This early Superman is still a Super Liberal: deciding that society is to blame for juvenile delinquency he physically demolishes the slums of Metropolis with his bare hands. City Hall rehouses the poor in “splendid housing conditions” and kids are no longer forced into crime. Problem solved – in twelve raw, primitive, socially-conscious pages. AR. 19. The Girl Who Didn’t Believe In Superman Writer: Bill Finger Artist: Wayne Boring Run: Superman issue 96 (1955) Buy: Pick up Superman In The Fifties. Alice Norton won’t believe Superman exists unless she sees him with her own eyes. Only problem is: she’s blind. A charming little fable about faith, healing and growing up, which hints at the religious overtones of the Superman legend without rubbing our noses in it. AR. 18. Superman’s Return to Krypton Writer: Jerry Siegel Artist: Wayne Boring Run: Superman issue 141 (1960) Buy: Pick up Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told Vol 2. “The flames within the planet are like cold glaciers compared with the mighty love blazing between Superman of Earth and Lyla Lerrol of Krypton…” Superman accidentally goes back in time, meets his parents, falls in love, knowing all along that the planet is doomed. Totally tragic melodrama, plus silly costumes and pink fire-breathing monsters AR. 17. Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel Writer: Brian Azzarello Artist: Lee Bermejo Run: Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel issue 1-5 (2005) Buy: Pick up Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel. Lex Luthor: Man Of Steel , or Luthor as it’s been rebranded in more recent collected editions, is a Superman story from the point of view of his greatest enemy. Brian Azzarello allows us to see the true logic of Lex Luthor as a political thinker, and why Superman’s existence is such a destructive contradiction to his interpretation of the world; it’s a convincingly bleak look at the iconic character that is tonally very different to the other books on this list. Thankfully, this is a portrayal of the more effective scheming genius Lex Luthor as opposed to the snarling maniac in a green power suit, with Lee Bermejo’s hyper-detailed artwork bringing Superman down to our level in memorably cynical fashion. Also of note in this volume: Bruce Wayne’s appearance for a brief fight with Superman offers a fantastic, spot-on contrast between his Dark Knight and billionaire playboy personas. SR. 16. Superboy Meets Supergirl Writer: Otto Binder Artist: Curt Swan Run: Superboy issue 80 (1960) Buy: Currently unavailable in collected form. Superman confides to Supergirl that his childhood was sad because he didn’t have a Superplaymate — so Kara goes back in time to visit him in back in Smallville. They playing hide and seek in the asteroids and “catch” with lunar satellites, and then she has to go home. Touching, magical, innocent…and sad. Like Peter Pan with X-Ray Vision. AR. 15. The Old Man Of Metropolis Writer: Otto Binder Artist: Curt Swan Run: Action Comics issue 270 (1960) Buy: Pick up Showcase Presents Supergirl Vol 1 for £8.96 from Amazon.co.uk. What will the world we like when Supergirl grows up? Well, Lois will be a bitter old maid; Jimmy will have no time for his Superfriend; Superman will be a broken down has-been…And then the dog catcher will take Krypto off to the pound. OK, it turns out to be a dream, but it’s still the bleakest Superman story ever. AR. 14. The Phantom Zone Writer: Steve Gerber Artist: Gene Colan Run: The Phantom Zone issue 1-4 (1982) Buy: Pick up Superman Presents The Phantom Zone for £9.79 from Amazon.co.uk. A baffling bit of Jungian landscaping from the one of the oft-overlooked power duos of the late Silver Age, Steve Gerber and Gene Colan, bundles together all of the previous decade’s Kryptonian supervillains as they torment the Daily Planet’s Charlie Kweeskill like spectres from the Phantom Zone. Poor Kweeskill sets into motion a chain of events that drags Superman into this hellish otherworld, while the Kryptonian villains unleash havok on earth. Last seen over a decade early, Kweeskill is in fact the wrongly imprisoned Kryptonian scientist Quex-Ul who has a pretty poor history in terms of being a dupe for more powerful villains. Fantastic Seventies sci-fi dreamscapes Colan, and spectacularly bleak and ponderous writing from Gerber make this a deranged classic that pre-empts Grant Morrison for mining the obscure history of the Man of Steel. JH. 13. Superman For All Seasons Writer: Jeph Loeb Artist: Tim Sale Run: Superman For All Seasons issue 1-4 (1998) Buy: Pick up Superman Presents The Phantom Zone for £9.79 from Amazon.co.uk. An evocative and nostalgic sort-of origin story for Clark Kent, this gorgeous book essentially tracks Superman’s journey from a young man coming to grips with his powers to the fully-matured Man Of Steel, told across the four different seasons by the various key people in his life. There’s an aching sense of longing to For All Seasons , particularly in its opening Smallville-set chapter, where Clark’s parents are contemplating their son’s finite days in his innocent country town bubble. While Jeph Loeb’s dialogue relays a strong and passionate knowledge of Superman’s cast of characters, it’s the extraordinary artwork by Tim Sale and colourist Bjarne Hansen that gives this a lost American Golden Age quality – undoubtedly some of the best Superman imagery you will ever see. A superb story that reaches all the major touchstones of the character’s DNA. SR. 12. The Amazing Story Of Superman Red And Superman Blue Writer : Leo Dorfman Artist: Curt Swan Run: Superman issue 162 (1963) Buy: Currently unavailable in collected form. Superman loves Lois Lane…but he also loves Lana Lang; he is human…but he’s also Kryptonian. Solution: split him into two heroes, who together defeat Lex Luther, abolish crime, find a solution to all known illnesses, return Kandor to full size, reconstitute Krypton, and live happily ever after. The sort of bonkers universe-bending yarn that “imaginary stories” were invented for. AR. 11. Superman Vs The Amazing Spider-Man Writer: Gerry Conway Artist: Ross Andru Run: Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man one-shot (1976) Buy: Pick up Superman Presents The Phantom Zone for £9.79 from Amazon.co.uk. The first, and best, Marvel/DC crossover. No jiggery pokery about parallel worlds: just take it for granted that Supes and Spidey end up and the same conference. Cool to see Doctor Octopus and Lex Luther sharing a cell; cool to see Superman stopping a tsunami; but supercool to see Jonah Jameson and Perry White moaning about their staff. (“Clerk Kent…sounds like Peter Parker. Good but…unreliable.”) AR. 10. Must There Be A Superman? Writer: Elliot S Maggin Artist: Curt Swan Run: Superman issue 247 (1972) Buy: Pick up Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told for £9.59 from Amazon.co.uk. It’s easy to think of the superhero deconstruction as something that entered comics with Alan Moore, but a decade earlier anxiety about changing American society had spilled over into the way that artists, writers and readers saw their superheroes. Playing with a theme that would later come to the fore with books like Kingdom Come, Elliot S Maggin and Curt Swan brought Superman before the Green Lantern Corps’ Guardians of Oa who accuse him of stunting mankind’s growth by making them dependent upon their all-powerful, all- seeing Kryptonian guardian. Stung by their criticism, Superman returns to Earth and brushes off several cries for help, telling a a group of immigrant workers protesting against their abusive treatment and living conditions that “What you really need is a super-will to be guardians of your own destiny.” It’s an uncomfortable prelude to the scroungers-vs-strivers self-sufficiency of the coming Reagan/Thatcher era, simultaneously showing the conflict at the heart of a character this powerful, and positioning as the ultimate moral arbiter. It’s hard to read the Superman in Frank Miller’s Dark Knight Returns or Mark Millar’s Red Son without thinking of Must There Be A Superman? JH. 9. World’s Finest Writer: Dave Gibbons Artist: Steve Rude Run: World’s Finest #1-#3 (1990) Buy: Pick up World’s Finest for £13.25 from Amazon.co.uk. A perfect primer to not just the world of Superman, but Batman too, as Dave Gibbons – then well and truly in ascent thanks to Watchmen and Give Me Liberty – accompanied by the evocative splash pages of Steve Rude ( Nexus , The Moth ), bring something of an outsider perspective to the Dark Knight Detective and the Man Of Steel, distilling them to their basic commonalities and differences as Lex Luthor heads to Gotham, and the Joker causes chaos in Metropolis, forcing the DC Universe’s leading lights together for the first time. Once you see that incredible introduction showing night falling in Gotham just as the sun rises in Metropolis on the opposite close, a cloud of bats in the former and doves in the latter, while the Batman chases down a mugger and Superman stops a crashing bus, it’ll stick with you for the rest of your life. JH. 8. For The Man Who Has Everything Writer: Alan Moore Artist: Dave Gibbons Run: Superman Annual #11 (1985) Buy: Pick up DC Universe: The Stories Of Alan Moore for £6.99 from Amazon.co.uk.
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