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Comic Book Junkie Archive: Superman vs Muhammad Ali

By mljohnson

All-New Collectors’ Edition #C-56  Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

Publication Date: Spring 1978 Writer(s): Dennis O’Neil Artist(s): Neal Adams

When I was a kid, my Uncle Frank brought me a box full of comics and I can proudly say that I still have most of them to this day. This particular comic book was in that box and holds a special place in my heart. The fact that it was given to me by one of my favorite uncles makes it even more special, but the magic of this book lies on the printed page! I mean, picture a kid in 1978 whose father was huge Ali fan and the kid himself wishes he could fly like Superman. I saw this cover and fell in love! Superman vs. Muhammad Ali isn’t just an over-sized comic book, it’s a seminal piece of 70s culture. Not only do you have a clash of titans, the Neal Adams cover makes it a destination for all that was cool and groovy during the waning decade of the 70s. His cover is so littered with 70s icons, the book actually has a coded seating chart of who’s who printed on the inside cover. Take a look and see if you can find your favorite 70s star from Wolfman Jack to President Jimmy Carter! If you can’t tell, I love this book…LOVE IT!!! This is a 72 page tabloid sized comic, so please…bear with me!

The Cover of The Century

  The Who’s Who In the Gallery

Aliens Set Up Prizefight of The Century

Our story begins with intrepid reporters Clark Kent, Lois Lane and photographer Jimmy Olsen walking the streets of Metropolis following a tip that Olsen received at the WGBS News room. They happen upon a pickup basketball game and who’s playing basketball with the kids? None other than The Champ…The Greatest…Muhammad Ali! Ali agrees to an interview, but suddenly an alien appears. The alien pushes Lois to the ground, then backhands Ali when he comes to her defense. Ali punches the alien so hard, he’s thrown from his flying apparatus. Superman flies into space and sees an alien armada surrounding the Earth. Superman returns to the playground and snatches up the alien who then explains that he is from a race called The Scrubb. They believe humans to be this galaxy’s most warlike and savage people and in order to prevent Earth from becoming a threat to their people, the alien proposes a challenge…Their greatest champion versus the Earth’s!

Superman and Ali begin to argue about who should take on the alien champion. The alien has had enough of their bickering and decides that they will fight each other for the honor of being the Earth’s champion, giving them 24 hours to prepare. Arriving at his Fortress of Solitude they begin their training. Superman builds a boxing ring constructed around a Kryptonian Continuum Disruptor which places them at the “Fringe of creation” where time crawls, effectively stretching their 24 hours into two months. Superman uses a Red Sun generator to take his powers away and Ali starts training Superman in the Sweet Science! The Scrubb renege on their 24 hour promise. After a brief battle with Scrubb Robots, the two champions fly to an awaiting spaceship where their fight will be broadcast across the universe! The fight is to take place in orbit around the Scrubb planet which circles a Red Sun, effectively making Ali and Superman equals. The alien leader, Rat’Lar introduces them to the alien champion, Hun’Ya, a HUGE hulking beast.

  Who is The Greatest? Who Else?!

Fight Day! Many alien races pack the ship’s stadium to watch the fight. The Scrubb allow Jimmy Olsen to do the play by by…much to the chagrin of a dismayed Howard Cosell. Superman and Ali approach the ring, Superman with Perry White (1959 Golden Gloves Finalist) and OJ White of the US Olympic Boxing Team and Ali with cornerman Bundini Brown and trainer Angelo Dundee. The fight starts! The two titans stalk each other in the ring. Ali throws a jab and misses! Superman takes the fight to Ali and lands a right jab to the head. They trade blows, Superman’s copied Ali’s style to a “T”! But The Champ goes to work…tagging Supes with solid lefts and rights that would have felled other opponents, but Superman won’t go down!! Bleeding and bruised, Superman continues to absorb punishing blows from Ali, until Ali walks away from the fight, refusing to kill in the ring. Ali is declared the winner and refuses to let the aliens help Superman telling them “Hands off! Take our slimy hands off that man! We’ll take care of our own!”

Superman is in critical condition and has to be flown back to Earth where restoring his powers is the only hope of saving his life! It’s on to the Main Event for Ali, where he now has to fight the man-monster Hun’Ya. Before the fight starts, an ethereal, glowing woman descends to the center of the ring. She is Pallas Athene…the Greek Goddess of Wisdom, there to enforce the rules of Fair Play. Meanwhile, we catch up with Bundini Brown sneaking through the alien ship, taking out guards left and right. Cut back to the fight and Ali is being pummelled by Hun’Ya…using his patented rope-a-dope to no avail, Ali is rocked, blow-by-blow from Hun’Ya. Back to Bundini Brown who’s found his way to the communications center of the spaceship, he takes out another two guards and…LO and BEHOLD…that’s not Bundini Brown…that’s Superman in disguise. Super-Bundini then uses his superior mimicking skills to send the armada surrounding Earth back home and commandeer a spaceship to return to Earth and a yellow sun. Back to the ring where Rat’Lar has paused the fight to give an apparently losing Ali a proposition…stop the fight and have the people of Earth become slaves to the Scrubb or face annihilation! A defiant Ali assures Rat’Lar the Hun’Ya is going down!! The fight commences and Ali lays into Hun’Ya raining body blows and uppercuts on the man-beast! Rat’Lar contacts his armada…he sees that Ali has the upper hand and in an act of treachery orders them to destroy Earth. Finding out that they have been ordered to return, he tells them to go back and complete their mission.

Superman catches up to the Alien Armada and away from the influence of the Red Sun, he regains his powers and takes them on. Back on the space ship, Ali is completing his destruction of Hun’Ya, knocking him out of the ring and into the front row! Rat’Lar, now driven totally over the edge, vows to destroy the Earth even though Earth’s champion won. A projection of Superman’s fight against the armada flashes across the stadium and as Superman destroys the armada his limp body floats in space. Emboldened by Superman’s apparent death, Rat’Lar plans to launch another attack against Earth when Hun’Ya, inspired by Ali’s treatment of Superman and Superman’s sacrifice against the armada, destroys his throne and deposes the power mad dictator. Back on Earth, Ali and Superman congratulate each other and Ali reveals that he knows Superman’s secret identity is Clark Kent.

Interesting Notes you may (or may not) know about Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

The book was inspired by a song called Muhammad Ali the Black Superman by Johnny Wakelin.

Superman had already met real life icons JFK, Jerry Lewis and Bob Hope in other comics before this one.

It’s rumored that Ali would only allow his likeness to be used if he would learn Superman’s secret identity during the story.

The book went through so many delays that Ali lost the title before the book went on sale. He regained it after publication in September of 1978.