Month: July 2018

Episode 220: August 1995 Supplemental

Welcome to the two hundredth and twentieth 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.

This time out Mike and Jeff are trying out yet another new format by putting all the side and related titles into their own episode.  They don’t know how well this is going to work, but they are willing to give it a shot.  So, over the course of this episode the boys will be talking about the supplemental issues from cover date August 1995.  There are two books they spend the most time on, the first being Superboy #18.  In this issue The Kid takes on Champion, a super powered fighter sent to attack Superboy by a crooked guy named Gamboli for fun and profit.  Or at the very least profit.  Then in Steel #18 things heat up with John’s battle with Hazard and we get more with Chindi.  After that the boys trip hammer through Loose Cannon #3, New Titans #124 and Outsiders #21 because two out of the three of those books are really freaking bad.

Below is a gallery of covers and selected pages from the comics discussed.

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Next Time: Cover date September 1995 begins with Action Comics #713 and Superman: The Man of Steel #48!

Episode 219: August 1995 Part 2

Welcome to the two hundredth and nineteenth 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.

This time out Mike and Jeff wrap up the Triangle Numbered books with an August 1995 cover date, which features a major event in the life of Jimmy Olsen!  In Superman #103 the once and future Mr. Action draws out Arclight to get a big story and things don’t go as planned leading Jim to make a rash decision regarding his employment at the Daily Planet.  Then, in Adventures of Superman #526, it’s Bloodsport vs. Bloodsport as the prison holding both men foolishly decide to let them have a boxing match, which couldn’t possibly lead to a full-blown riot, right?  Oh wait, it does lead to a full-blown riot.  Finally, the boys take a look at what else was going on in the DCU during this cover month.

(One again the subject matter of the second book leads Mike and Jeff into a discussion about some very real-world topics.  Mike gives a heads up about this before that particular segment but the boys felt you should get a heads up here as well.)

Below is a gallery of covers and selected pages from the comics discussed.

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Next Time: Mike and Jeff cover the supplemental books with an August 1995 cover date.  These books include Superboy #18, Steel #18, Loose Cannon #3, New Titans #124 and Outsiders #21.

Episode 218: August 1995 Part 1

Welcome to the two hundredth and eighteenth 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.

(Official FCTC Heads Up…During the discussion Mike and Jeff have about Superman: The Man of Steel #47 the talk gets very political.  The boys realize this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so they want to make you aware of it before the episode begins.  Things get real, as they see.  So…consider yourself warned.)

Things get back to normal as Mike and Jeff get into the first half of the Superman books with a August 1995 cover date on them.  First up is Action Comics #712, which should be called The Death of Clark Kent Epilogue as it deals with the one loose end from the conclusion of that story line.  Jimmy Olsen is still a captive of Conduit, even though he’s dead, and Superman is forced to jump through a number of hoops to save him.  Then in Superman: The Man of Steel #47 we go back in time with an adventure with a young Perry White where he meets Franklin Sterns for the first time as they deal with racism, bigotry and the super strong members of the Aryan Brotherhood!  Finally the boys talk about what else was going on in the real world during the month these comics were published in a segment they like to call Meanwhile, At The Daily Planet Building.

Below is a gallery of covers and selected pages from the comics discussed.

And here is the video from the DC Comics commercial that was played during the episode.  Not only did they slap this thing on the Batman: The Animated Series VHS tapes they made it available to comic shops to use as television commercials, which is why you see the little bit at the end.

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Next Time: The boys wrap up August 1995 with Superman #103 and Adventures of Superman #526!

Episode 217: Year One Annuals Part 2

Welcome to the two hundredth and seventeenth 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.

The Year One fun continues this time out as Mike and Jeff finish up their look at the Superman related annuals from 1995!  First up is Adventures of Superman Annual #7, where we learn about how Superman first encountered the Fourth World and how the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit was formed.  We also get to see when Maggie Sawyer came to Metropolis and how she met Dan Turpin and Toby Raynes.  Then Superman learns his limitations and that there is a lot of ambiguity in the universe in Action Comics Annual #7.  There is also an antagonist that is very much like something from the world of Doctor Who, which Mike wouldn’t have noticed five years ago.  This is followed by a brief look at Steel Annual #2, where we find out more of John’s backstory, and Doomsday Annual #1, which is an anthology book charting the various places Doomsday has been in the universe before killing Superman.

Below is a gallery of covers and selected pages from the comics discussed.

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Next Time: The boys finally get back to the Triangle numbered books with the first two August 1995 cover dated Superman books.  These books include Action Comics #712 and Superman: The Man of Steel #47!