Comic Geek Speak covers Superman in the Bronze Age

[Will.S]

http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-608.php

I know that the CBR forums in general are for some reason somewhat adverse to podcasts but I thought this episode was worth getting input from Superman fans here who read the Bronze Age Superman. As for me while I had never read the Superman of this era, this was a fascinating subject to me. The episode actually makes me want to go out and grab some trades of that era especially this one:

http://www.zianet.com/comic-booksuperstore/dc/superman-seventies.jpg

[WorstThingUS]

As a kid I was annoyed forever because those covers by Neal Adams and Nick Cardy were freaking awesome. Then you opened it and got Curt Swan. Not to bad mouth the late Mr. Swan, but exciting it was not. Now, that I'm older I smile wistfully at those days because the stories are still fun. But at the time I was just pissed I'd been suckered.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/mengblom/4thwall/06_supes_274.jpg

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/pbcomics/cgcforum2/superman280-f.jpg

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/thumb/f/f6/Superman_v.1_307.JPG/350px-Superman_v.1_307.JPG

http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/pbcomics/cgcforum2/superman317-f.jpg

[WorstThingUS]

Oh, and Ross Andru and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez:

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/action-comics/475-1.jpg

http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/09/action_484.jpg

http://stlcomics.com/gallery/whitman/full/actioncomics492.jpg

http://www.thefifthbranch.com/images/oldies/superman/action500.jpg

[Will.S]

Interesting covers!

[umbc8]

As a kid I was annoyed forever because those covers by Neal Adams and Nick Cardy were freaking awesome. Then you opened it and got Curt Swan. Not to bad mouth the late Mr. Swan, but exciting it was not. Now, that I'm older I smile wistfully at those days because the stories are still fun. But at the time I was just pissed I'd been suckered.[/IMG]

It was worse in the late 60s when Neal Adams was doing the covers for just about all of the DC books, but rarely any interiors until his Batman work. Imagine Adams' take on the characters on the covers, while the interior is old reprints or done by relics from the 40s and 50s like Al Plastino (no offense to Al, but he's no Neal Adams).

[Utility Belt]

As a kid I was annoyed forever because those covers by Neal Adams and Nick Cardy were freaking awesome. Then you opened it and got Curt Swan. Not to bad mouth the late Mr. Swan, but exciting it was not. Now, that I'm older I smile wistfully at those days because the stories are still fun. But at the time I was just pissed I'd been suckered.

I felt exactly the same way. Of course, that was the whole idea, to make you buy the comic with the amazing Neal Adams or García López art and give you an artist who could work faster in the interiors. And Curt Swan was just that, a fine if somewhat boring artist that got the job done.
García López himself has stated that he was always a slow artist which is why we always see him on covers or backup stories.

[WorstThingUS]

I felt exactly the same way. Of course, that was the whole idea, to make you buy the comic with the amazing Neal Adams or García López art and give you an artist who could work faster in the interiors. And Curt Swan was just that, a fine if somewhat boring artist that got the job done.
García López himself has stated that he was always a slow artist which is why we always see him on covers or backup stories.

Ironically enough, Superman #307 actually had Garcia Lopez interior artwork as well. It was a two part story wherein Supergirl and the other heroes of the world through Superman had become too obsessed as a defender of humanity, so tried to make him believe he was actually just another super-powered human and the entire Kryptonian thing was a lie. Yet another classic story that's totatlly f***** up when you think about it. Still it has a great scene where Clark decides to join the WGBS football team to embrace his newly human heritage and because he's so wrapped up in his internal monologue he runs into the wrong end zone in a typical klutzy Clark Kent move!

[Mon-el]

http://www.zianet.com/comic-booksuperstore/dc/superman-seventies.jpg

I had seen this thread a couple of days ago, I haven't had time to really respond lately.

I have that trade and I don't really think I can recommend it as far as content goes.

It does have the Captain Thunder/Superman battle in it.

I would have to think about this and go over it, but I would have picked a better selection of Bronze age material that would have fit better in that trade.....

[IvCNuB4]

As a kid this cover always freaked me out

http://image2.milehighcomics.com/istore/images/ebaysize/83644612238.150.GIF