This is more a questions for the veterans and mods here, what do you think are the best pages in this fandom? from formatting, comprehensiveness, images, length etc.? I think it would be a helpful reference, as i saw pages like the barry allen one classified as needed of cleanup, what makes that page for example, not "perfect" ?
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Do we really need mr. terrific, guy gardener, hawkgirl, solaris, maxwell lord, the engineer, metamorpho in a Superman movie?
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The canon explanation as of post-crisis on infinite earths:
Lex Luthor did not discovered kryptonite, but Emmet Vale.
Basically this dude was monitoring the skies for decades, until he saw Superman's rocket ship landing to Kansas, at that point he stole the rocketship after the Kents bought Kal home, and translated the message Kal-El's father left in the rocket.
The dude started experimenting and testing the element, but i don't think he knew it had such effect on Superman, as the guy simply used it as a inexhaustible power source. (For Metallo)
When Metallo fought Superman, Lex Luthor saw on TV how he was slowly killing him, so he got Metallo kidnapped, and started studying the kryptonite.
He then used a little piece of kryptonite as a ring, and basically lured Superman into his office and got a field-test of its poisonous effects on Kryptonians (however this would backfire as it gave Lex cancer, but that's another story)
Source: Superman Vol 2 (1987) #1 and #2
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Kite Man has a tv show but Wonder Woman, part of the trinity does not, okay DC
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John Byrne's version of Krypton is the best one
The whole "family" thing (batman family, superman family, wonder woman family etc.) is unnecessary
This is more general but, tv series are the most boring form of entertainment, even if it's about characters i love with the best casting, writer and director you can get, im not going to watch it
Cinematic universes like MCU are equally as boring, they force you to watch 2-3 hours movies about characters you have no interest in because they add subplots that will be fundamental for the one you're interested in, it only works with comic books.
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Yes, some things about it get retconned in doomsday clock and the various 100 crisis though
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So clearly the suit wasn't made by his mother, not a fan of padded suit, but i think you need a massive physique to pull one like the 1974 one so i get it
But im more interested in what the hell is going on in the background, who could be the villain?
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Pretty sure this would put it as one of the most expensive pieces of literacy too
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Everything is canon in DC after death metal, EVERYTHING, if you, for example read "DC: Generations shattered" that released in 2020, you will see the Batman from 1939!
DC gave up on trying to have a coherent continuity, everything matters, this make sense, DC wants you to read as many comic books as possible, they don't want you to think "Oh but this is not canon so i'll not read it"
The terms "golden age, post crisis, pre crisis" etc, are simply put to give context
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It would be simpler to have all in the same universe, but it would be confusing and untrue, imagine having 80 years of comic book stories in a single page, yikes.
How do they get distinguished? Well when DC says so.
These are the primal universes, meaning AT SOME POINT these were all canon and considered the main publication.
1) Earth-Two / Golden Age (1930s-1985)
2) Earth-One / Silver Age (1950s-1985-Now (Depending on the character)
3) New Earth / Post-Crisis (1986-2011-Now (Depending on the character)
4) Prime Earth / Post-Flashpoint (2011-Now)
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Hush
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I have a vague memory of watching Superman II from 1980, but i was too little to remember any of it, then the Arkham games, played every single one.
Then out of the blue i bought an hardcover of Superman stories drawn by Alex Ross. (it included Superman: Peace on Earth and JLA: Liberty and Justice)
From that point i decided to read every Superman comic book.
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For the bad: it's not original, it's not faithful to the characters, and it has incredibly bad writing and inconsistencies.
The idea of Joker bombing Metropolis and killing Jimmy, Lois etc. has been already done about 26 years before. Superman #9 (1987) has literally the same plot of Injustice, with the difference being that Joker was stopped.
But even if he didn't get stopped we see another injustice scenario in Superman Annual #3 (1991), Intergang nuked Metropolis killing everyone including Lois, obviously, Superman become a tad more aggressive, but no psychopath child-killer.
And then we got Kingdom Come, one of the best DC comic books ever, in this story Joker kills everyone at the Daily Planet, despite this, Superman "defended" Joker after Magog killed him, again, no psychopath child-killer.
This comic is a victim of what i call "Batmanization", in short, since around the 2000s/90s, Batman become DC best selling hero by far, and as such, they find ways to make him stand out from everyone, this translated in every super hero getting shit on by him, this transformed Batman in a cheap iron man knockoff (imo)
For the good: It made DC a lot of money?
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In; Superman: Escape from Bizarro World - Superman was exposed to blue sunlight, and he developed new powers on top of becoming more powerful.
How powerful would he be? At the very least, more then normal, likely much more
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Yeah it's mainly because if Superman was invulnerable to magic he would be way too powerful to write him consistently, it was the same problem they had in the Silver Age, where to fix that problem, they made like 10 different versions of kryptonite to give him a challenge, but it was detrimental to the seriousness of the story
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Batman is seen doing magic, so if he can, Superman should too, but it's also unclear what magic is in DC, Dr. Manhattan said "magic" users like Zatanna and Constantine are not actually using magic, but rather scrapes of creation.
In Action Comics #762 Superman absorbs some magic powder and uses it to save the day.
In the storyline Superman/Batman: Sorcerer Kings - Superman is powered by a magic sun.
So yes he can/should be able to do magic
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Nothing really, people who care are power-scaling maniacs, of course, being a crossover, DC wouldn't and shouldn't allow Superman to just one shot Godzilla like it should (imo) happen, who would want to read a story like that?
It's also why we got stuff like Venom defeating Superman, or Batman defeating the Hulk with a kick.
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It's Superman (1939) #198 - The Fate of the Super-Super-Superman!
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_Vol_1_198
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I think the closest global DC reading order possible is this one:
If you REALLY want to read everything, i highly suggest to start at least from the Post-Crisis era (1987-now) as it's still pretty much relevant today, (depending on the character) easier to access and it has better quality.
Im personally collecting and reading everything about post-crisis Superman (1987-2011) and it's pretty rough, (2.705 issues, 60k+ pages, and this is JUST post crisis Superman)
Alternatively, you can read some of the bigger dc events using this list, most of the books in this page should have a tradepaperback available on the dc website or amazon
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Major_Events_of_the_DC_Universe
Good luck