Superman Comic Books
Superman is a comic book published by DC Comics. The character was first featured in Action Comics #1 published on June 1938 by the National Periodical Publication. Action Comics used to be a comic strip that ran in the National. That time, Superman was featured alongside other Action Comics characters such as Zatara and Tex Thompson. Due to insistent public demand, National published a self-titled issue, Superman. Superman comic books then became the first single self-titled superhero comic book series ever to be published. The first issue was out in June 1939.
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Superman comic books were first published quarterly. Soon enough, it went out bimonthly and in the late 1950s, DC Comics decided to release the title monthly. Aside from that, there were twelve annual issues published between the years 1960 and 1986 and a three-part special issue published in 1983-1985. The series went to a hiatus after publishing the issue #423 in September 1986. After which, the Man of Steel limited series went into publication.
Between the years 1986 and 2006, Superman has been re-titled to Adventures of Superman. But before that, Superman has earned quite a number of citations and awards including the 1970 Shazam Award for Best Writer (Dramatic Division) for Dennis O’Neil’s work on Superman. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons won the 1986 Jack Kirby Award nomination with Superman Annual #11 published in 1985.
The Adventures of Superman premiered with issue #424 in January 1987 with writer Marv Wolfman and artist Jerry Ordway working in the initial team. The title lasted until April 2006 with issue 649. A total of 228 monthly issues published under Adventures of Superman were released. This includes the crossover issue #0 in October 1994 which was published between issues #516 and #517 and the issue #1,000,000 in November 1998 for the DC One Million crossover event. Aside from that, nine annuals were also published between years 1987 to 1997.
During the first series runs of the Superman comic books, plots were oftentimes linked together. The
sequence of events and storylines have become quite confusing in the January
1991 to January 2002 issues and that was why DC Comics had to link the
storylines with “triangle numbers’ appearing on the cover of each of the Superman
comic book. Those years were when the story lines tried to remain true to the
original Superman, Action Comics title. It was in February 2002 when DC Comics
started publishing issues that do not necessarily follow the original plots.
Most of the remaining Adventures of Superman releases usually had standalone
storylines. An exception is its final issue, the #649, which was a three-part
crossover issue with Superman and Action Comics. It is said to be a tribute to
the Golden Age of Superman. The last installments of the Adventures of Superman
title were written by Greg Rucka. These issues hold noteworthy plots such as
the appearance of the villain, Ruin, and the assassination attempts on
Adventures of Superman also won awards such as issues #501 through #503’s (The Reign of the Supermen story arc) winning of the 1993 Comic Buyer’s Guide Fan Award for the Favorite Comic Book Story.
In May 2006, the Adventures of Superman went back to the
original title with issue #650. As of
