#adventures of superman 1987

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for some reason cadmus programmed superboy with star wars knowledge

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[ufonaut]

Your people are dead, Lantern! You want their deaths to mean something? Then make sure it never happens again! Do whatever it takes -- or die trying!

Hal Jordan in Adventures of Superman (1987) Annual #6

[intentionally-out-of-context-dc]

No one messes with the Main Main's coiffure

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[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

If this is Lex then I'm happy to see that this show is moving away from the post-Crisis billionaire version and giving us more of a Silver Age scientist turned supervillain because he has a silly grudge. Would be even better if that grudge was because he got decked by Lois Lane.

[desperatecheesecubes]

I would die for Kon

[longwuzhere]

Some cool Easter eggs I caught watching My Adventures with Superman that I want to show to people so they can be in on it with comic book readers pt2

Episode 1 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 4 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 5 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 6 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 7 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here and here

Episode 8 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 9 of My Adventure with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

(SPOILERS obviously):

An obvious one, but a classic, the "up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" line reference. This one never gets old.

Jimmy next name drops Flamebird. in the comics Nightwing and Flamebird were Kryptonian superheroes adopting their names from a species of Kryptonian birds. This is where Dick Grayson gets his Nightwing identity from. The page here is from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17 (1986) drawn by Curt Swan and Karl Kesel.

At the climatic battle of part 2 of Adventures of a Normal Man, we see Leslie Willis become blue and look more like her traditional Livewire look. Her first appearance was in Superman the Animated Series, season 2 episode 5 "Livewire" where she was voiced by Lori Petty, a.k.a. Tank Girl. In the show Leslie was a shock jock radio DJ slinging hot takes live on air knocking down Superman a peg or two

Obviously MAwS took Leslie in a whole different direction, design choice, and occupation change, but I am excited to see what happens next for her.

Before we see Clark battle Leslie we see this guy. White hair, wears orange and black, its Slade Wilson a.k.a. Deathstroke. This fool here in like 20 to 25 years will have his life spiral out of control and get his ass kicked by a bunch of colorfully dressed teenagers.

Deathstroke makes his first appearance in New Teen Titans #2 (1980) (W: Marv Wolfman and George Perez, P: George Perez, I: Romeo Tanghal, C: Adrienne Roy, L: Ben Oda) where he is hired by H.I.V.E. to kill the Teen Titans. In the comics he's a major piece of shit, but a damn good assassin.

After the fight we see Supes clean up and he picks up a billboard that reads Amazotech.

This is a good reference to Professor Anthony Ivo, a mad scientist of the DC Universe who built the Amazo robot who could adapt and replicate any power that the Justice League has and weaknesses. Both Ivo and the Amazo robot make their first appearances here in Brave and the Bold #30 (1960) with the cover art done by Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson.

At the end of the episode Slade name drops Task Force X better known as the Suicide Squad. The name "Suicide Squad" is from the Brave and the Bold #25 where it was the name of Rick Flag's unit in the military. The Suicide Squad pop culture knows first debuted in Legends #3 (1987) as seen below (W: John Ostrander and Len Wein, P: John Byrne, I: Karl Kesel, C: Tom Ziuko, L: Steve Haynie).

The team at this time was composed of Rick Flag, Bronze Tiger, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Enchantress, and Blockbuster. The team members have changed out with each new Task Force X/Suicide Squad iteration.

Behind Slade, here is Amanda Waller, the most fearsome woman in the DC universe. She's ruthless, politically powerful, and will not hesitate to blow up anyone in the Suicide Squad if they screw up. She makes her first appearance in Legends #1 (1987) same comic series in the previous picture. Very excited to see where My Adventures with Superman goes with this cuz you don't see Superman interact with Deathstroke or Suicide Squad all the often.

Link to Episode 1 of My Adventures of Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 3 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 4 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 5 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 6 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 7 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here and here

Link to Episode 8 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 9 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

Link to Episode 10 of My Adventures with Superman Easter Eggs and references is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 1 post is here

My Easter eggs and references in My Adventures with Superman comic issue 2 post is here

My Easter eggs and references for My Adventures with Superman comic issue 3 post is here

[mamawasatesttube]

ok putting these in their own post because truly i am so tired of the "superman hated/rejected/was cold to kon!!1!!" crowd. behold, a brief, nonexhaustive list of times canon explicitly depicted clark caring about kon.

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superman (1987) #155

superboy (1994) annual #2

superboy (1994) #59

superboy (1994) #70

wonder woman (1987) #175

clark loves kon and has been willing to throw down for him since day fucking one. he taught him to milk a cow. he went to check on him when he heard he got bad news. he loves kon so much that kon is one of the four people diana names in order to break him out of mind control (alongside herself, lois, and john henry irons). please actually read superman comics before talking shit about superman 💀

[inhousearchive]

House-ad for The Adventures of Superman (1987) #500.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Adventures of Superman (1987) #522

scruffed

[chernobog13]

Jerry Ordway's wonderful cover for Adventures of Superman (vol. 1) #424 (January, 1987).

The cover itself is an homage Fred Ray's cover to Superman (vol. 1) #14 (February, 1942):

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obviously I'm sure other characters have done it, I don't think its a super rare trope :P but

(Superman's technically was more than just a mental attack, and he also had an author with reality altering powers in his corner, the author having accidentally written the guys who were creating the problem into life and was then un-writing it. But anyway adventures of superman #614-616 for Superman and Terror Titans for Miss Martian)

[sbd-laytall]

Some miscellaneous panels about what it means to be a hero.

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #50, Ms. Marvel (2014) #5, Daredevil: The Man Without Fear (1993) #4, Batman (2011) #32, Daredevil (1964) #13, Adventures Of Superman (1987) #505

[intentionally-out-of-context-dc]

Yeah, that's so irrational of him

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[stoneqoldcrazy]

dick being a scamp🩵

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[the-truth-is-there]

All tv and movie Supermans

Kirk Alyn - Superman(1948)/Atom Man vs Superman(1950)

George Reeves - Adventures of Superman(1951-1958)/Superman and the Mole-Men(1952)

Christopher Reeve - Superman(1978)/Superman II(1980)/Superman III(1983)/Superman IV: The Quest for Peace(1987)/Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut(2006)

John Haymes Newton - Superboy(1988-1989)

Gerard Christopher - New Adventures of Superboy(1989-1992)

Dean Cain - Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman(1993-1997)

Tom Welling - Smallville(2001–2011)/Crisis on Infinite Earths - CW(2020)

Brandon Routh - Superman Returns(2006)/Crisis on Infinite Earths - CW(2020)

Henry Cavill - Man of Steel(2013)/Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice(2016)/Justice League(2017)/Zack Snyder's Justice League(2021)/Adão Negro(2022)

Tyler Hoechlin - Supergirl(2016-2021)/Crisis on Infinite Earths - CW(2020)/Superman & Lois(2021-present) Nicolas Cage - The Flash (2023)

[desperatecheesecubes]

Big fan of how Kon’s drawn in this panel