The Greatest Bronze Age Superman Stories, Part 2

Robots From Tomorrow!

Today's episode is the second 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.

Intercompany crossovers! Intracompany crossovers! History lessons! Horror on a superhero scale! All that plus a REALLY big missile and more on today's episode!

[This is episode 805 in a series.]

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Intro

02:24 – Overview

05:44 – Superman vs Spider-Man + Spider-Man vs Superman

12:40 – DC Comics Presents (v1) #1-4

23:54 – DC Comics Presents Annual #1

27:32 – Superman Special (v1) 1 + Superman Annual (v1) #9

30:23 – World of Krypton (v1) + The Phantom Zone (v1)

39:53 – Closing Thoughts

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AVAILABILITY

The Phantom Zone and World of Krypton minis, as well as the DC Comics Presents issues, are available as individual issues on DC Universe Infinite.

Superman Annual #9 is not available digitally or collected in any English-language reprint.

The two DC/Marvel crossovers are also unavailable digitally, though they were reprinted at standard comic book size in both the Crossover Classics vol. 1 collection from 1992 and as individual reprints in 1996. They will both be included in the upcoming DC Versus Marvel Omnibus, and presumably available digitally at some point afterwards.

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