Episode 189: Dead Again Part 1
Welcome to the one hundred and eighty-nine episode of From Crisis to Crisis: A Superman Podcast! This podcast has a simple premise; examine just about every Superman comic published between Man of Steel #1 in 1986 to Adventures of Superman #649 in 2006 in an informative and hopefully entertaining format.
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This time out Mike and Jeff begin their coverage of the Dead Again storyline with the first two Super books from cover date November 1994. In Superman: The Man of Steel #38 the revelation that there is a body in Superman’s tomb that looks an awful lot like the Man of Steel happens at the worst possible time. Conduit escapes and has a serious mad on for Clark and Superman. Their battle continues in Superman #94 along with a mysterious figure coming to town from Smallville and Professor Hamilton making a shocking discovery about the body found in Superman’s tomb. After that the boys look at Superboy #9 where the Kid fights King Shark. Finally Mike and Jeff hop in a cab, pay their $7.50 and head to a feature they like to call Meanwhile, At The Daily Planet.
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Next Time: Dead Again continues in Adventures of Superman #517 and Action Comics #704. The boys also look at Steel #9, Guardians of Metropolis #1 and Metropolis: SCU #1.