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>>88268840

>>88269072
Does DC still have digital every day of the week?
It feels like there's 2-3 days that don't have one.

>>88268840
Storytime the rest

Storytime the rest, please

>>88268853

America's last king is a furry?

>>88273310
well it worked for dragon ball.

>>88268941
>>88268933
I'm a bit unfamiliar with golden age supes history, who is this professor?

>>88274309
I'm not sure, but in his first incarnation Superman grew up in an orphanage. This guy probably ran the place.

>>88268840
wheres the rest

>>88268840
Bump

>>88274309
He's Lana Lang's uncle and made experiments that kept changing Jimmy Olsen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Potter

I think Keatinge merged him with the old guy at the orphanage shown in Superman's origin during the early years.

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>>88269072
Not OP, but I'll continue on in his place.

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>>88279903

>>88274392
>I'm not sure, but in his first incarnation Superman grew up in an orphanage.
whoa what?
i didn't even know that
>>88279750
ahhh, thanks
>>88279783
ty anon.
/co/ is love. /co/ is life

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>>88280073

>>88280014
Yeah, it was that way in the very early comics. I can't remember when they made the change.

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>>88282469
The End

>>88282514
no more?

>>88268840
Wasnt Superbro on this cover?

man i love Superman

Thanks for dumping

>>88283146
Yeah on the printed edition.

>>88268840
Were the trade editions ever scanned?

>>88268875
Where's Batman's neck?

>>88269025
"I can work with vanished."

Why does this sound like such a superman thing to say co.

>>88283243
You...have it?

>>88280052
>By Rao, you made it.
What's he talking about?

What are the best arcs of this series?

>>88281886

shit, anu? the proto skyfather/monotheistic deity?

>>88281886


>Superman 2099

heh.

>>88279867
If that's Kamadi I don't see why the Tiger King is so mad. The earth has been fucked for a long time.

>>88281971
This is such a cool mythology.

>>88268840
This any good?

>>88268840

This is ONE of my favorite Superman stories. I understand that some folks find it strange, when it gets to part three and it's not as tidy as they would like, and its a story that I think if Keating had had an entire arc, versus what is essentially one typical issue, could have done great things with.

He's given interviews where he would want like to do a Superman book and I would pre-BUY the hard cover if they announced they were letting him do something like The Coming of the Supermen or American Alien.

IOW, OP, yes, please do the entire three-parts for everyone who might never have seen it.

>>88290588
>>By Rao, you made it.
>What's he talking about?

I assume Clark is talking to himself, before Lois walks into the room. That he's made it to the future they were talking about in the first scenes with professor Potter.

>>88291208
Yes, I had to look that one up to remember the specifics from Gilgamesh, etc.

>>88291576
Yes, that is Kamandi - and it presumes that its in the far future, where the Tiger King's people have develop space travel, so maybe that?

>>88292339

It's essentially what has driven DC in many respects, given what Final Crisis was, what Convergence suggests, as well as what Rebirth is suggesting.

>>88269450

No, not every day of the week. That hasn't existed since they dropped Arrow and the Flash as tie-ins. They are doing Bombshell's on Friday but that should be dying sometime soon, they've already done more than 70 issues.

Batman '66 is now just doing mini's and Wonder Woman '77 is also just a whenever they put it out.

Injustice should be just about ending, but I suspect they will do something very much like it every week.

>>88280014
>>88274309
>>88274392

He was only in the orphanage for like three panels. When the Kents find him, they leave him with the local orphanage and THEN afterwards (not many days is suggested by the baby's appearance, etc.) come by and desire to adopt him. They weren't even Martha and Jonathan in those days and this was only in the post Action Comics issue where his origin was expanded on.

>>88279783

Thanks - sorry didn't realize the change.

>>88285185
The first five magazine (meaning the ones that combined the digital first pages into a proper page size, so likely the first 15 or so stores were scanned and you can find them on the hubs and on line. It's a Novus scan.

All the digital first issues were ripped and the first collected trade was ripped earlier this year I think.

DC just had a Digital First sale and vols. 2 and 3 were a really good price but it doesn't look like anyone bought them to rip. I haven't seen any scans and folks are generally not scanning what others might rip.

>>88290831

There are about 10-15 3 part stories like this one, 20 or so one part stories and another 10-20 two parters.

Metallo, Brainiac and Bizarro feature a lot and Bizarro is turned into something you wouldn't expect in many of the issues about him, whereas Brainiac and Metallo are exactly as you might expect them to be, with only Brainiac, in my opinion, getting a truly interesting story in any of these. Of course, Luthor features in a fair number of these and he's the typical businessman/criminal/scientist you see in the comics more than the one shown in the DCAU.

There are three collected trades of the digital firsts comics and they are well-worth reading.

>>88293197

very

>>88268840

Thanks!

>>88291231
Perfect

Thanks OP.

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>>88289874

They collect these digital first (which are half of the size of a standard comic that you physically get in print) and the one that featured this story had a different cover (see attached).

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>>88289874

The cover of the trade paperback is the nicer version of the one shown above >>88268840
by OP. And I've seen wallpapers and textless versions of THIS cover (not the one with Superbro - but I'm sure they must exist.).

While I was looking for the image with Superbro, it looks like Amazon is selling a version of this book with a different cover, with art by Evan "Doc" Shaner, story by Ron Marz which I never seen in physical or for sale anywhere else.

It's also a great story someone should story time, and if this thread is still around when I get back, I'll do it myself or I'll start a new one.

>>88291208
Yeah. I like that the first god was the last one to die.

>>88293268
I like to think of this as the companion piece to "The Butler did it" from Final Crisis. Both are about Superman and Batman accomplishing one huge important feat (breaking out of the Apokalips mind-pod, saving the phaeton) and it involves a melding together of their histories as characters. And they end on pages that define what the characters represent. Butler did it has Alfred give the awesome "No matter how dark the night evil will have no place to hide" speech and Superman has the "I will never leave you" speech.

If Keating did a Superman book I would buy ever single issue.

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>>88282008
MMCIX = 2109

MCMLXIII = 1963

This was a comic with a cover date of January 1963 (even though that meant it was on stands in 1962)

Not sure if 2109 has any significance (Unknown Superman in All Star Superman was from 4500 AD)

>>88268875
>>88268887
I like this art style.

>>88268840

>>88268840

>>88298515

I suspect that Keating is just riffing on Morrison's All Star Superman's #6 as well as One Million. I don't think the years mean anything.

Also, I always assumed the Unknown Superman from #6 (aka Superman Prime aka Clark) was the same one and therefore the J-Lo quote was just a way to through Lois off.
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This is Adventures of Superman, the second print edition that was dated August 2013, but I'll also post the cover and credit pages (next two in order) of the one chapter story. I have to run another errand and I want to story time something else from AoS v2 later - the one with art by Shaner, and written by Marz, because that's a three part piece and I'll have to use the digital version.

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This story is by Bryan J. L. Glass and Michael Avon Oeming who do The Mice Templer for Image.

Credit page from the digital first. The next batch are all HQ scans of the print edition of just this story.

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>>88303160

Fin

>>88289456
desu this whole thing reminds me of that time in JL when Superman got sent into the future by Toyman, and batman insisted he wasn't vaporized or there'd be evidence of it

>>88288067

>>88280148
Superman is such a Debbie Downer in his modern incarnation, sometimes it's extremely annoying.

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"Only Child" part 1 of 3. When a giant robot from outer space crashes into Metropolis harbor, Superman rushes to the scene--only to make a shocking discovery!

Written by Ron Marz, with art by Evan "Doc" Shaner, this cover is also by Shaner. This story is in the same collected trade as the story original and follow-up OP story-times at the start of this thread.

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>Wait - I know! Cat stuck in a tree!

Obviously, this is a Lois that doesn't know Clark's secret.

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You gotta love the detailed reaction shots Shaner drew.

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and even with the Digital First restrictions of page size, width, etc., the way Shaner shows the movement of the 'meteor,' the harbor and that lone ship on the water ...

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>I've Got You.

I really wanted the dog to have a thought bubble to finish the Donnerverse joke (but I'm cheap and easy in that way too obvious manner):

"You've Got Me, But Who's Got You!"

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>>88308144

Again, great perspective from Shaner, especially taking account the restrictions of the Digital First format.

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>>88268941
Baby Supes lifting the chair needs to be cropped.

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And these B&W 'flashback' pages are really just more examples of how great Shaner can be at this stuff.

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>This is what I have become.


Jor-El's 'monster,' except he didn't bring it to life as such, so a little bit more Bucky Barnes ... and other references

>>88280148
I hate when writers do this. Use supporting characters as mouthpiece to tell instead of show. This story is full of moments like this.

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>>88308559


>Sure, BEING SAFE is always my first concern.

I'd love to point people who say that a Superman movie couldn't have a chunk of it based in the Daily Planet to this - and there's about three, maybe four more of the chapters in these stories that are mostly about Lois and Clark as journalist or even take place mostly with reporting, including a really excellent one where Lex threaten's Lois.

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>>88308600

So is the robot based on the Iron Giant?

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>>88308635

>>88308580

You gotta remember that there's a real space restriction to these - it's a half page - and about 10 full pages per 'chapter.' Three of them, which was the longest length of any of these (or the other similar series done for Batman like these, or the Legends of WW as well), is essentially one standard printed comic book.

Keating's story, as the original OP wrote, is pretty verbose and I think it's a perfect example of something that could have been a six issue arc, and a trade, but that's not what DC offered the guy. I don't think Keatinge has ever done anything other than one shots or a few little things here and there, he's never been asked by DC - hey, want to do Superman for a 12-18 issues?

He did a lot of press when this was coming out and he said several times he would be interested in doing more of this type of story with Superman and he still hasn't been asked, as far as we know, to do anything at all.

>>88308632

Marz, I think, never said it was supposed to be, but I'm pretty sure someone asked Shaner (he used to have or still has an art blog) about it and he also did some commissions at a con where he made it look even more like The Iron Giant (which wouldn't be a rights issues, because WB Animation made the film and Brad Bird doesn't actually have any ownership rights to it just like anyone else who did say DCAU stuff has) - so yes, it is. I'd like to see what Marz's script suggested, if anything.

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The top panel is a great example of how good Shaner can be visually, again in the very limited size and dimensions he had to work with.

If you owned the digital and looked at it this page as Original Size, it takes up more than the size of my desktop screen and looks really great.

>>88282514
That was beautiful. Thanks, anon.

>>88308536
This is weird, I'm so used to Superman just straight up murdering most artificial life that poses a threat. No matter how benevolent he's written, he's never really giving robots much quarter when it came to fighting.

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>>88309081

I'm gonna miss that robot.

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>>88309108

Another great Shaner one page panel. I has this as my screen saver for the longest time.

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>>88309158


>>88309104
THIS robot or just The Iron Giant - if you haven't gotten the extended DVD, there's a really nice Bluray that came out this year, with a tiny bit of extended material. But it's a really nice transfer.

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I really love how the bottom left panel here is a mirror of the bottom right circle here: >>88308536 - with Clark being shown inside the view of the Giant's eye.

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>>88309272


Fin

>>88309178
Just a joke eluding to the obvious outcome of this story. The moment they gave him a significance in Superman's past, it was pretty clear he wasn't going to survive this issue.

>>88309044

The Max Fleischer cartoons and the early Superman DC Archives are full of Clark just wailing on robots created by the Ultra Humanite, Luthor or whichever scifi villain or evil doer was involved that week, but these were always pretty much machines, just like a tommy gun or a pistol were tools, used by someone else.

I think when you start talking possibly sentient life, even if most folks might consider it artificial, Superman took the tack he used here, both with the Robot up until he say the Kryptonian Glyph for 'El' inside, where he was pretty much letting the 'Giant' whale on him for a few panels. Likewise, when the Vendai make it clear they are just going to fire, he strikes BACK, but in neither case does he strike FIRST.

I'm sure there's instances where he's written differently. Marz is an old time writer from the days of the Bryne reboot (not quite mid-80s but he started at DC and Marvel by the '90s). He wrote mostly GL, but he did runs on Superboy, Man of Steel, and stuff for all the other Superbooks of those days.

>>88309344

Yes, the Chris Kent of this volume.

>>88303195
Who is this couple?

>>88308451

Oh fuck, we Iron Giant now.

>>88303195
This was a really good issue. The coloring was shit though, and spoiled Oeming's art.

>>88308732
Superman needs some new talent, a fresh voice and an editorial shakeup. It's sad that DC treats Superman as the step child. While Batman gets the hottest talent, Superman gets workhorse writers who Berganza can control. There should be more stories like these in Superman and Action Comics ongoings.

>>88309414

Unnamed Kryptonians. The story is supposed to parallel Superman's own, except the child (seen as the Guardian of the Timeline at the start) is the one the scientist brought forth, from before Krypton's destruction (e.g. prior to Jor-El's rocket, etc.) - it's a little complicated, and cute in the way that Doctor Who get's written about for the last few show runners, except that Clark's solution is to set him FURTHER back than the child's actual birth/time he was taken, so he would never grow up under a yellow sun, destroy entire galaxies, etc.

He'd simply grow up as something he never got to be the 'first time' - a garden variety Kryptonian. The couple really need no name.

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>>88309525

Sorry, I used a scan. It just seemed faster since that doubled up the Digital First pages. The actual original does look on the darker side, but here's an actual rip:

Yeah, Berganza is supposedly a nice guy but I'd like them to retire him the way they forced Levitz too, while still keeping him in the fold, but outside of authority.

These issues are all edited outside Berganza's group, just like the Convergence issues that lead to Lois and Clark weren't as well, or American Alien/Coming of the Supermen.

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>>88308318

That's an image lifted from the Siegel version of Clark at the orphanage, circa 1939.

It was even parodied whenever they did those Lois marries Superman in her dreams and has super strong super babies she can't deal with, who are running around lifting everything.

>>88282573
Sadly, it's just those three parts.

>>88282514

And yeah, great story - one of my favorites from this collection.

>>88306352

>>88282514
This was beautyful.vthank you for posting.

Thank you

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>>88268955
Couldn't resist.

>>88268998
>>88269009
>>88269019
>>88269025
This is really good.

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>>88317509

It's a genuinely great story that works on so many levels and is re-readable. That third volume is considered one of the best sets of story.

I might pick some of the Luthor stories later tonight or tomorrow and story time. It surprises the F out of me when there's a Superman appreciation thread and people pull out the same ASS and similar well-known (and yes, very good) stuff and never reference these.

This is from a great Lemire story about two kids playing supers.

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>>88317659

And this is from a great Bizarro story.

>>88317659
>>88317709
I gotta admit that I haven't read these before. Haven't finished them yet but they do seem top tier. I think the problem is that there are so many Superman stories, and a lot of them are good, so it's hard to find ones that are really great. It's tough because there's no way of being sure before reading them. I love the art style too for these.

>>88280585
>>88281801
So that's where these are from. Always wondered.

>>88282029
Nice!

>>88282084
>>88282118
>>88282137
>>88282153
All of this is really well done. Reminds me of "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader" in a way. Superman always saves people.

>>88282267
>five minutes
Very funny.

>>88268840

>>88282445
>>88282469
>>88282514
Good ending. Sometimes we need a Superman. "Everything I've known is gone" indeed.

>>88319803

Adventures of Superman - it was a Digital First comic by DC that ran from 2013-2014, The artists (writers, pencilers, inkers, etc.) were allowed to use whatever canon version of Clark they wanted - some of them are clearly based on the Donnerverse, some of them are very Silver Age, almost all of the artists used the red trunks - this was during the third year of the New 52. This series is considered v2, with the series that ran from 1987-2006 being considered vol. 1.

The put out 51 of these, all called 'chapters' - just like the Bombshell series, Smallville Season 11 (which has a bunch of story times going on the past few days), Batman '66 and a bunch of other comics that are DC Digital Firsts (meaning they don't appears in the local comic shops as a printed thing the same day and date as the digital release, but get collected later in the standard comic book format OR get get collected later in the standard physical trade paperback). This volume had both: physical magazines that collected a set of the chapters and were standard page size, instead of a half-page size (which is how almost every company, Marvel, Dark Horse, DC, etc. alike) release their digital comics, and also got collected into three volumes of trades.

You can still buy the digital firsts chapters and trades on line at CMX (and Amazon if you are in a different part of the world than North America).

>>88318215
>>88319803

Oh - and the other real great thing about the art style of these Digital First is that the editors were allowed to go ask ANYBODY, people who had never worked for DC, in the business: hey, would you like to DRAW or WRITE Superman. Almost no one turned them down. And they were also allowed to write/draw what they wanted.

So every story (which is either one chapter, two chapters or three chapters long) is a different writer and artist(s) combo.

>>88322258
It was almost the very last set of chapters in the run, so in a way it kinda was the Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow of this series.

>>88282514
Man these stories always make me wonder what the hell would have happened if the kryptoians managed to all escape their planet. And get on a world with a yellow sun.

>>88328623

>>88285349
bats dont have necks

>>88306352

>>88330619
>>88330783
Thanks for the information. The part about letting anyone write sounds really cool. Do you know if they've done that for any other character? Batman, Flash, GL, or Captain Marvel maybe? Or if Marvel (or another company) had done that before? It sounds very interesting and a great way to have various interpretations.

>>88339949
I've never read it - but I think there were regular comic books for Batman that did this - a rotating group of writers and artists. I pretty much only read Batman in team-ups with Clark or Brave and the Bold or JL, so I don't really know his solo books that well. Maybe another Anon might respond.

I know they haven't done it for Barry or Wally, except for the odd thing they did (the Elseworlds Annuals are pretty interesting for the Flash, for example - it's about a film version of the life story of the Flash, but I'm pretty sure it was the regular writers/artists at that time).

It would be a pretty cool idea for them to do it for Captain Marvel. They don't seem to be doing anything with the character, other than having him guest with people like Vic in the last Cyborg on-going and that was just a few pages here and there, and with Damian, I think before he was killed and again, that was just a few pages. I think Green Lantern has had some special stories but not an entire series.

They do Elseworlds but they seem to mainly do them for Bruce and Clark. There's a really fun/weird, taking place in the future Flash Elseworld and I'm pretty sure there's an out of print Lantern one. Thunderworld would be that for Captain Marvel.

Marvel does their What Ifs (what if Bruce Banner has been bitten by a radioactive spider, or what if Tony Stark was a WWII super soldier) but those are, again, just one-off issues. I don't really know Marvel, but they have done more to explore their alternate realities, like the entire Zombie line they did. Plus their Ultimate universe.

DC only really did this with Tangent Comics.

>>88339949
The entirety of Legends of the Dark Knight was great. Not the new 52 one, but the older one. There was tales of the Green Lantern Corps, but I've never read those.

>>88340757
>Tales of the Green Lantern Corps

Those are actually different stories, by different people, stand alone kinda tales?

I've got three scans of single issues and I've seen three trades, but haven't read any of them yet. I assumed it was just what they called the collected trade of that run at that time.

>>88281831
>Anu
>the first skyfather/king of the gods

>>88282514
What a charming story, Superman really IS a godlike figure, so very benevolent and patient and humble.
.. really, unlike any other god.

>>88297967
>>88297879
Jeez, it's like they just added the changes through inks. It's so sloppily done.

>>88268840
Anyone got a textless version of this? I found a new wallpaper

>>88307126
This page is too cute. Holy shit I love Doc Shaner.

>>88309288
Is it the law that every DC hero's lair needs a dinosaur statue?

>>88332804
most Kryptonians are dicks, which is why it was really fucking stupid for DC to allow, just before 52, Krypton to have a world conquering space fleet in the past.

If anything good came out of 52 it's that that BS has been retconned.

>>88343129
Agreed

>>88308953
Charge your fucking camera, Jimmy. Jesus Christ.

>>88268840

>>88344903
jej

>>88339947

>>88268840

>>88350443

>>88342798
Probably as to the inks. It's as forced as adding Cavill's bank scene to the 75th anniversary trailer before MoS was even out and so pointedly leaving out Routh entirely, when the airplane shot would have been a very good fit into that part of the trailer.

Let me check on a textless for you.

>>88268840
Why only one of these supermans have eyes?