Superman: The Man of Steel (Compilations)

    (DC, 1991, 2003-2006, 2012)
™ 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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  • 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
    2 copies from $14.50
  • 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
    1 copy for $14.50
  • 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
    1 copy for $19.99