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Well, fans can add a new addition to that lineup as McFarlane Toys is bringing the DC Comics Super Powers line! Three figures have been revealed with Batman, Superman, and Darkseid However, things get a little more interesting as McFarlane Toys did not stop there as DC Comics Super Powers Vehicles are also coming! Iconic and[...]

Spoilers (beyond the headline) going forward – and maybe even for Superman: Space Age #1, but we'll get to that. This is far from the first time Lex Luthor has been portrayed as President Of The United States In the DC universe, he won the Presidential election in the year 2000 leading his own political party,[...]

At San Diego Comic-Con, writer/artist/editor/publisher Sina Grace announced his upcoming original young adult graphic novel Superman: The Harvests of Youth, on sale on the 3rd of October, 2023 Yup, that's next year, I had to check I have lost all sense of time these days. The book looks at a young Clark Kent, in high school[...]

McFarlane Toys is diving deeper into the DC Multiverse as they arrive at the one-shot comic Superman: Speeding Bullets In this world, it is Martha and Thomas Wayne who find the crazed Kryptonian ship Named "Bruce," this version of Superman also loses his parent like our Bruce, and after some time, he ends up rising[...]

All the heroes are fighting over who will be trapped with a demon for eternity in this preview of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #5 Check out the preview below. BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #5 DC Comics 0522DC052 0522DC053 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #5 Francesco Mattina Cover – $4.99 (W) Mark Waid (A/CA) Dan Mora THE FIRST ARC OF WORLD'S FINEST CONCLUDES WITH A[...]

Three new 7" action figures were recently revealed by McFarlane Toys with Superman, Static Shock, and Scarecrow Nothing is slowing down the Man of Steel as pre-orders have arrived, giving collectors a full look at the upcoming figure This version of Superman comes to us from the recent DC Comics Future State comics showing Supes[...]

Spoilers for what has followed, of course, including Suicide Squad: Blaze, Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League: Superman and Superman: Son Of Kal-El. Although, even with their flesh ripped from their faces, everyone reckoned they;d be back And we soon learned that Pariah had put them in The Matrix, living a dream life, with their[...]

One of those stories was Future State: Worlds of War, featuring Superman on a new planet fighting for his life Superman comes to Warworld to free the prisoners of this planet However, he ends here stuck as a gladiator in the deadly pits of Mongul, giving readers some new and intense Superman action This version[...]

Jon takes Jay to the Fortress of Solitude to escape a media frenzy in this preview of Superman: Son Of Kal-El #13, but an uninvited guest is waiting for them Check out the preview below. SUPERMAN: SON OF KAL-EL #13 DC Comics 0522DC145 0522DC146 – Superman: Son Of Kal-El #13 AL Kaplan Cover – $4.99 (W) Tom Taylor, Nicole Maines[...]

Jon Kent, the Boy Wonder, is having nightmares in this preview of Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League – Superman #1 Check out the preview below. DARK CRISIS: WORLDS WITHOUT A JUSTICE LEAGUE – SUPERMAN #1 DC Comics 0522DC023 (W) Tom King, Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown (A) Chris Burnham, Fico Ossio (CA) Chris Burnham When Pariah and his forces[...]

Miracle Monday was a novel written by Superman comics writer Elliot S Maggin, starring the DC Comics superhero Superman published in 1981, and recently republished His second Superman novel, created as a tie-in Superman film series, wasn't written to be in continuity with the movies. The novel debuts the character, time traveler Kristin Wells, who would[...]

One of the more prevalent fan Superman theories is the idea that, rather than a refugee from a dying planet, Superman was the advance troops Sent to Earth to prepare the way for a Kryptonian alien invasion And in Flashpoint Beyond with Superman's craft landing in Metropolis rather than Smallville, and killing thousands, maybe it[...]

In Dark Crisis #1, Black Adam, is the sole surviving member of the previous Justice League, after the death of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman and more Though it now looks like Pariah may have just saved them for later. But he also dissed Superman's son, Jon Kent – the new Superman of Earth[...]

PrintWatch: Iron Cat #1 and Amazing Spider-Man #4 are getting second prints from Marvel Comics, Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 and The Flash #783 from DC Comics, Sengi & Tembo #1 from Scout Comics and Alex Toth's Artist Edition from IDW. PrintWatch: "Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, featuring the fusion between the[...]

Superman has a conversation with a baby in this preview of Action Comics #1044 Naturally, it's very one-sided Check out the preview below. ACTION COMICS #1044 DC Comics 0422DC071 0422DC072 – Action Comics #1044 Ian Churchill Cover – $5.99 (W) Phillip Kennedy Johnson, David Lapham (A) Riccardo Federici, David Lapham (CA) Lucio Parrillo The Warworld Revolution is here! With the Genesis[...]

World's Finest writer Mark Waid will naturally be overfamiliar with the long history of merged Superman and Batman in one form or another Composite Superman, a shapeshifter with a grudge, being the most prominent, who first appeared in  World's Finest Comics #142 in 1964 and recurred through the years in various forms World's Finest, a[...]

Batman and Superman must face Hal Jordan gone bad in this preview of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4, in stores Tuesday from DC Comics Check out the preview below. BATMAN/SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #4 DC Comics 0422DC097 0422DC098 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 Derrick Chew Cover – $4.99 0422DC840 – Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 Cover – $4.99 (W) Mark Waid (A/CA) Dan Mora As[...]

And adding Jon Kent Superman, the son of Clark Kent and Lois Lane, and who hit headlines over being a bisexual young man, to mix As well as Jace Fox, son of Lucius Fox, and the Batman of New York, who hit headlines for being… um black And then there's Yara Flor, the current Wonder[...]

Lex Luthor is back and ready to save Metropolis as Superman's replacement with his new Power Suit It looks like McFarlane Toys is combining their previous Lex Luthor figures for the figures fans have been asking for The Power Suit makes its return with a newly added cape under the DC Multiverse Gold Label line[...]

Superman dies in Justice League #75, along with most of the rest of the Justice League Though as Dark Crisis teased and Tini Howard's Substack proved, not so much "To power his weapons of war, Pariah has captured each member of the Justice League and trapped them on worlds suited to their every dream and[...]

With developments rising from personal stakes to pulse-pounding action, Superman: Son of Kal-El #11 does a fantastic job balancing all the elements of the young hero's life, even when he's not on the panel With the clarity and simplicity you need from a Man of Steel, this is the Superman we need right now. Superman Son[...]

This week's Superman: Son-Of Kal-El #12 by Tom Taylor and Cian Tormey from DC Comics sees the return of Krypto the Superdog, as Jonathan Kent and Jay Nakamura take their international battle against slavery and oppression to Capitol Hill, where American politicians are being blackmailed by the island nation of Gamorra and President Bendis –[...]

Superman's mustache has made many an appearance over the years, as many have wondered to themselves while walking down the street or in the shower, "How exactly would he shave?" One of the most debated parts of the Zack Snyder Justice League film, no matter which cut you are talking about, was about Superman's mustache[...]

The most popular DC characters at the time had stories inside- Batman and Robin, Superman, Sandman, Slam Bradley, and Zatara all appeared between the covers, which featured no advertisements A full 96 pages of story in there Another interesting tidbit is that the cover for the 1940 issue with its yellow background is the first[...]

Superman fans and collectors have no shortage of comics to buy on a daily basis, the man has been saving the world for decades at this point But one book that deserves extra attention and is a great buy at the moment is Action Comics #9 from the New 52 run Featuring the solo cover[...]

In comic book series Superman: Birthright by Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan, it presents Clark Kent with the power to see the living aura that surrounds all creatures, that fades with death As a result of this, Clark Kent is portrayed as a vegetarian Originally planned as non-canon, the series was later[...]

June sees the release of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #4 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, and the cardstock cover featuring some kind of merged Batman and Superman figure has got a few comic book speculators all of a flutter.  As if this may be a new character As if they may go on to have[...]

From Superman to Batman to Thor to Wonder Woman to The Hulk to Iron Man… the list goes on and on Being a comic book character with Daddy Issues is nothing special, so the best characters have got to have Mommy Issues too Like, well, Batman again Batman has a lot of issues In this[...]

The current run of Action Comics written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson has seen Superman take his pursuit of freedom and justice to WarWorld, run by Mongul, in an attempt to free the captive, fighting slaves of the world A freedom, however, it seems that few want A confrontation of the simplicities summed up by Superman[...]

Superman is back and is getting a pretty freaky figure from McFarlane Toys for their new 7" Page Puncher line This new line will include a Never Before Seen Black Adam comic from DC Comics and will include figures based on the comics art We have already seen Black Adam and Batman arrive, and it[...]