Endless Mike
Illustrious
Backup from here: https://www.fanverse.org/threads/pre-crisis-superman-overview-action-comics.1256800/
I recently acquired digital copies of every issue of Action Comics from its debut in 1938 to Crisis on Infinite Earths, in 1985. So the Golden, Silver, and Bronze ages.
This won't be a comprehensive respect thread like my Fantastic Four and Avengers* threads, instead it will be in a different format:
- I'll go through each issue and simply take notes in text form regarding feats, events, trivia, etc.
- I will be posting scans, but only for the really crazy feats or important milestones/events. So the total scan density will be much less than my other threads, and many issues probably won't have any scans.
- I'll try to cover multiple issues per post
If I have the time, I might eventually add other titles in the same era, like the Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy titles, World's Finest, Justice League, and various other spinoffs.
My major goals with this thread are:
1. Using what I call the Power Tracker, I'll be keeping a record of how Superman's power varied over the years, keeping track of notable powerups (and powerdowns) and basically seeing how he moved throughout the different tiers over the years. Since we're starting in the Golden Age, expect a fair amount of time before he gets all that powerful.
2. Looking for unknown feats. Pre-Crisis feats, especially Silver Age, are known to be crazy, and I've heard about tons of them that I have never seen scans of. I don't know if anyone has attempted to go through so many comics in this era before, so I'll hopefully find a lot of stuff that you've never seen/heard about before.
3. Contextualizing well-known feats. How many times have you seen that panel of Superman sneezing away a solar system, or pulling a chain of planets? If/when I find those, you'll finally know how and why he was doing all that stuff, and what was really going on (including mitigating factors that might make the feats more or less impressive in context).
4. Exploring the wackiness of old comics. Many Silver Age DC stories are known to be the equivalent of LSD trips put to paper. If you've ever seen Superdickery, you know that the covers alone can be ridiculous. Here I'll actually explain these things in context (if there is a context... a lot of times there's really not), as well as point out other craziness you may have never seen before.
Obviously this will take a very long time and I may not ever finish, but I plan to at least accomplish something here.
*Which I have completed for now, and may repost here at some point
I recently acquired digital copies of every issue of Action Comics from its debut in 1938 to Crisis on Infinite Earths, in 1985. So the Golden, Silver, and Bronze ages.
This won't be a comprehensive respect thread like my Fantastic Four and Avengers* threads, instead it will be in a different format:
- I'll go through each issue and simply take notes in text form regarding feats, events, trivia, etc.
- I will be posting scans, but only for the really crazy feats or important milestones/events. So the total scan density will be much less than my other threads, and many issues probably won't have any scans.
- I'll try to cover multiple issues per post
If I have the time, I might eventually add other titles in the same era, like the Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy titles, World's Finest, Justice League, and various other spinoffs.
My major goals with this thread are:
1. Using what I call the Power Tracker, I'll be keeping a record of how Superman's power varied over the years, keeping track of notable powerups (and powerdowns) and basically seeing how he moved throughout the different tiers over the years. Since we're starting in the Golden Age, expect a fair amount of time before he gets all that powerful.
2. Looking for unknown feats. Pre-Crisis feats, especially Silver Age, are known to be crazy, and I've heard about tons of them that I have never seen scans of. I don't know if anyone has attempted to go through so many comics in this era before, so I'll hopefully find a lot of stuff that you've never seen/heard about before.
3. Contextualizing well-known feats. How many times have you seen that panel of Superman sneezing away a solar system, or pulling a chain of planets? If/when I find those, you'll finally know how and why he was doing all that stuff, and what was really going on (including mitigating factors that might make the feats more or less impressive in context).
4. Exploring the wackiness of old comics. Many Silver Age DC stories are known to be the equivalent of LSD trips put to paper. If you've ever seen Superdickery, you know that the covers alone can be ridiculous. Here I'll actually explain these things in context (if there is a context... a lot of times there's really not), as well as point out other craziness you may have never seen before.
Obviously this will take a very long time and I may not ever finish, but I plan to at least accomplish something here.
*Which I have completed for now, and may repost here at some point