To celebrate seven years of my Guide to DC Comics, it’s time to tackle DC’s biggest hero in a new guide exclusively for Pledgeonaut Patrons of Crushing Krisis. When it comes to the superhero that started the Age of Superheroes, you have to start at the start, which is why today I’m debuting: Guide to Superman in Pre-Crisis Action Comics – The Golden, Silver, & Bronze Ages!
Guide to Superman in Action Comics (1938 – 1986)
I have Marvel’s complete publishing history dedicated to memory thanks to reading and re-reading Les Daniels’ Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World’s Greatest Comics over and over again as a tween. My relationship to DC Comics was more approximate. I knew DC better through cartoons and films, and through the major events of the 90s like “Death of Superman” and “Knightfall,” but I didn’t know much about its beginnings and how it kept superhero comics alive in the post-war era until the dawn of the Silver Age.