Superman 80th Anniversary Thread

[thecolorsblend]

Irony? But from that exact same issue...



Afaik, this was John Byrne's first professional work on Superman. Strange that it pops up in what a lot of fans consider to be the last hurrah for Pre-Crisis Superman.

[The Joker]

Huh ... I had no idea. That's pretty cool.

I remember back when "Infinite Crisis" was in full swing, with that banger of a splash page at the end of issue #1, that it would be pretty cool if the Pre-Crisis Superman would return as well. I recall that I had a short-lived theory (prior to Alexander Luthor Junior revealing himself to Lex as being the imposter), that the reason for Post-Crisis Lex experiencing headaches/memory loss, was that it was actually the Pre-Crisis Earth-1 Lex somehow reasserting himself over his Post-Crisis doppelganger.

Going off memory, there seemed to be a 50/50 debate on what was actually going on with Pre-Crisis Superman over on the DC Comics message board at the time. As there was a good portion who viewed Pre-Crisis Supes as being integrated into the Post-Crisis Superman (essentially making him the same being), while just as many viewed Pre-Crisis Supes as being just as distinct/separate as Earth-Two Superman is to Post-Crisis Superman.

Yes, it's a convoluted topic, and no, I didn't think Infinite Crisis really shed any light on the topic and left things rather vague. I'm still not sure if it's really been definitively answered. I seem to remember Doomsday Clock bringing up a Earth-1985, which presumably could be a retitled Pre-Crisis Earth-1, but I think all that was thrown away for Death's Metal or however many tortuous Crisis/reality altering events that subsequently followed since then.