Saturday Night Showcase> Look Up In The Sky! The Amazing Story Of Superman

Usually on Saturday Night Showcase I show off a work of fiction, a good example of the things we talk about in the positive about storytelling. Tonight, as part of the what’s left of the month tribute to Superman (next year Google Calendar will remind me it’s Superman and Lois’s birthday) I thought I’d bring you an official documentary about the various adaptations of Superman…which of course ignores the cartoons except for the Fleischer shorts and some lip service to Superfriends and the DCAU. The Filmation show gets a clip and the Ruby-Spears show is ignored completely. I’m surprised the comics get equal focus with the shows and movies.

Look Up In The Sky! The Amazing Story Of Superman initially came out as a promotion for Superman Returns but actually discussed the comics as honestly as it does the live-action shows, the radio show, that crap musical, the movies, the serials, and the Fleischer shorts. It’s not a deep dive but a brief overview of the comics and adaptations. They of course never mention how National Comics screwed over Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, or this wouldn’t have been posted to DC’s official YouTube channel in 2020. However, it is a mostly decent look at the long history of the Man Of Steel. Sadly Dan DiDio makes a cameo but it’s short so don’t let it ruin things. Enjoy.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #9

I guess Yarko and Zanzibar were both busy that day.

The Blue Beetle #9

Fox Publications, Inc (October, 1941)

It’s still an anthology but Yarko and Zanzibar are not in this one. Also no Dynamo or Dyamite Thor. The Blue Beetle actually gets the first four stories in his own title, followed by new heroes (to me, anyway, since they might have appeared in the other books seeing as how all of them are anthologies and I’m considering giving Mystery Men Comics a second shot since Wonder Comics still only has two or three stories worth reading and one of them got his own book) we’ll be introducing later. One of them is a gorilla with a human brain. So we may be missing our occultic heroes but we’re still getting something resembling insanity.

What I’m saying is Casually Comics is really sleeping on these stories. She should click this link and read along. And you, too.

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BW’s Superman Comic Recommendations (part 2)

In case you missed it, here’s part one of our list.

Please note that this list of recommendations isn’t coming from me as a critic. It comes from me personally based on comics I’ve read and owned. This isn’t even a full list of my favorites. There’s one I read in a book I used to get from the local public library often called Superman From The 30s To The 70s in which Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne are sharing a cabin on a cruise ship when a fire breaks out and they accidentally learn each others’ identities. Their first reaction is to team up and save the ship and thus became friends. I like Superman and Batman as friends from the start, bonding over their shared desire to help others even if they do it in different ways due to how crime works in their cities.

I actually pulled a lot of recommendations off because this list would be way too long and I don’t want to spend the whole month on this one list. I’d like to do some other Superman related stuff if I can, though given how many times I’ve done articles on why I love Superman, why I think he’s great, and that he is indeed relatable I don’t know how many other topics I can cover. Pretty sure I’ve even done a list of all my previous Superman-related articles at some point. So here’s the rest of the list of comics I think you should check out should you ask me “what Superman stories do you recommend?” and I pointed to…

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Tangent Comics: The Trials Of The Flash

“I guess this is the closest we get to background until our next DC crossover.”

The Trials Of The Flash

Tangent Comics (September, 1998)

“Making Light Of The Situation”

WRITER: Todd Dezago

PENCILER: Paul Pelletier

INKER: Andy Lanning

COLORIST: Joe Rosas

SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age

LETTERING: Comicraft

EDITOR: Eddie Berganza

CONCEPT: Dan Jurgens

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BW’s Daily Video> Why Superman Is More Relatable Than You Think

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BW’s Superman Comic Recommendations (part 1)

I can’t say DC Comics did NOTHING for Superman’s 85th anniversary, but I can say they didn’t do a lot. I didn’t even know about it until Tuesday night when I saw posts about it on Facebook. I can barely keep track of my own life lately so remembering Action Comics #1, the debut of Superman and Lois Lane, came out this month just went by me. I put a note in Google Calendar so I won’t forget again.

I didn’t have time to replace yesterday’s article in time for posting so the rest of this month I’m going to shove in as much Superman material as I can without driving you all nuts. The question is what to do? I’ve talked about Superman so often on this site, even collecting my favorite intros of the show, and discussing why I love Superman, so coming up with new topics isn’t easy. Then I realized that in all this time I never really did my own “must read” list of Superman comics, the ones that come highly recommended from me. If you want to know my favorite Superman stories, then this is the article for you. Or rather articles, since I’ve reviewed so many that even when trimming them down to the must reads it’s going to take at least two articles to do the full list. I’ll put links to the old reviews, some more in-depth than others. So…here we go………!!!!!!!!!!!!

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“Yesterday’s” Manga> One-Punch Man: Special Preview

The preview up at ComiXology is 70 pages long by the way.

“Ha, I’m actually going to punch you with my OTHER fist!”

Magna Starter Pack: One-Punch Man Special Preview

Shonen Jump (no date listed)

“One Punch”, “Crab & Job Hunting”, & “Walking Disaster”

WRITER: One (adapted from his webcomic)

ARTIST: Yuske Murata

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