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Superman: The Man of Steel (Compilations)

    (DC, 1988, 1991, 2003-2006, 2008, 2012-2014, 2016, 2022)
™ and © 1987 DC Comics, Inc.

In 1986, writer/artist John Byrne (Blood of the Demon) gave DC’s flagship character a makeover with the six-issue limited series The Man of Steel, which retold and streamlined Superman’s somewhat cumbersome history and established a new status quo. After that, DC relaunched the ongoing Superman title with a new no. 1, redubbed the original series The Adventures of Superman with no. 424, and turned Action Comics into a Superman team-up title.

This trade paperback series collects the adventures of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths Man of Steel in chronological order, allowing the Smallville generation to discover the stories that gave us a sterile, cold Krypton, resurrected the Kents, Superman’s adoptive parents, and made Lois Lane even sassier and more capable than ever before. The tales are modern-day comic book classics that deserve this special treatment.

— Thomas Moudry
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  • 1-2
    #1 - 2nd printing
    Sep 1991
    Cover: $12.95
    W: John Byrne, Dick Giordano  ·  A: John Byrne, Dick Giordano
    Foreword by Ray Bradbury; Introduction by John Byrne
    1 copy for $18.00
  • 2-2
    #2 - 2nd printing
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Terry Austin, Marv Wolfman  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway
    Collects Superman (2nd Series) #1-3, Action Comics #584-586, The Adventures of Superman #424-426, and Material from Who’s Who Update ‘87
    1 copy for $16.00
  • 3
    #3
    Sep 2004
    Cover: $19.95
    W: John Byrne, Marv Wolfman  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway
    Collects from Superman (2nd Series) #4-6, Action Comics #587-589, and The Adventures of Superman #427-429
    3 copies from $15.00
  • 4
    #4
    Aug 2005
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Marv Wolfman, Paul Levitz  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway, Greg LaRocque, Erik Larsen
    Collects Superman (2nd Series) #7-8, Action Comics # 590-591, Adventures of Superman #430-431, and Legion of Super-Heroes #37-38
    1 copy for $15.00
  • 5
    #5
    Nov 2016
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Marv Wolfman  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway
    Collects Superman #9-11, Action Comics #592, 593 and Adventures of Superman #432-435
    1 copy for $15.00
  • 6
    #6
    Jul 2008
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Ron Frenz, Jim Starlin, Dan Jurgens  ·  A: Arthur Adams, Ron Frenz, Dan Jurgens, John Byrne
    Collects Action Comics $594-595, Anl #1, Adventures of Superman Anl #1, Superman (2nd Series) #12, Anl #1, and Booster Gold #23
    2 copies from $15.00
  • 7
    #7
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway
    Collects Superman (2nd Series) #13-15, Action Comics #596-597 and Adventures of Superman #436-438; ca. 2012
    1 copy for $15.00
  • 8
    #8
    Jul 2014
    Cover: $16.99
    W: John Byrne, Paul Kupperberg, Jerry Ordway, Roger Stern  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway, George Pérez, Mike Mignola, Ross Andru, Dick Giordano, Curt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger
    Collects Action Comics #598-600, Superman #16-18 and Adventures of Superman #439-440
    1 copy for $15.00
  • 9
    #9
    Oct 2016
    Cover: $19.99
    W: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway, Roger Stern, Paul Kupperberg  ·  A: John Byrne, Jerry Ordway, Ron Frenz, John Statema, Erik Larsen, Karl Kesel
    Collects Superman (2nd Series) #19-22, Superman (2nd Series) Annual #2 and Adventures of Superman #441-444
    2 copies from $15.00