Episode 804: The Greatest Bronze-Age Superman Stories, Part 2

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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!

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SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL

Comics referred to in this episode are:

• Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man
• Superman and Spider-Man
• World of Krypton #1-3 (of 3)
• DC Comics Presents #1-4, 26-29, 36
• DC Comics Presents Annual #1
• Superman Annual #9
• The Phantom Zone #1-4 (of 4)

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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