{"id":33301,"date":"2025-07-11T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=33301"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T16:09:19","slug":"dc-finest-superman-kryptonite-nevermore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/07\/11\/dc-finest-superman-kryptonite-nevermore\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Finest: Superman – Kryptonite Nevermore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Dennis O\u2019Neil<\/strong>, Leo Dorfman<\/strong>, Cary Bates<\/strong>, Len Wein<\/strong>, Curt Swan<\/strong> & Murphy Anderson<\/strong>, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito<\/strong>, Dick Giordano<\/strong>, Carmine Infantino<\/strong>, Neal Adams<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-79950-165-7 (TPB\/Digital edition)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times <\/em><\/p>\n

This stunning compilation is part of the DC Finest<\/strong> editions line: full colour chronologically curated paperback compilations delivering \u201caffordably priced\u201d comic books generally around 600 pages and highlighting past glories.Whilst primarily and understandably concentrating on the superhero character pantheon, there will also be genre selections like horror and war books, and themed compendia. Sadly, they\u2019re not yet available digitally, as were the last decade\u2019s Bronze, Silver and Golden Age collections, but we live in hope…<\/em><\/p>\n

Superman<\/strong> is the comic book champion who started the whole genre and, in the decades since his 1938 debut, has probably undertaken every kind of adventure imaginable. With that in mind it\u2019s tempting and very rewarding to gather up whole swathes of his inventory and periodically re-present them in specific themed collections, such as this one commemorating one his greatest extended adventures. The episodes contained herein were originally released just as comics fandom was becoming a powerful – if headless – lobbying force reshaping the industry to its own specialised desires and remains a true landmark of the superhero genre. Moreover the brand overhaul seen here was a major concerted effort to re-energise the Man of Steel at a time when comics superheroes were experincing a major die-back…<\/p>\n

When Julie Schwartz took over editorial responsibility for the Superman<\/strong> title in 1970, he was expected to shake things up with nothing less than spectacular results. To that end, he incorporated many key characters and events simultaneously developing as part of fellow iconoclast Jack Kirby\u2019s freshly unfolding \u201cFourth World\u201d. That bold experiment was a breathtaking tour de force of cosmic wonderment which brought a staggering new universe to fans: instantly and permanently changing the way comics were perceived and how the entire medium could be received. Don\u2019t think for a moment that the 1985 reboot triggered by Crisis on Infinite Earths <\/strong>was new or innovative… just necessary…<\/p>\n

As the Sixties closed, Schwartz was again breathing fresh life into a powerful but moribund icon – a job he had been excelling at since more-or-less singlehandedly kickstarting the Silver Age of Comics. Superman<\/strong> had been a mega-media star since his launch, with internationally syndicated comics, books, newspaper strips, movie and cinema serials plus hugely successful radio and TV shows (live action and animated) making the franchise globally recognizable. Whenever that happens, inevitably overkill and overexposure inescapably set in and the core property needs to be carefully overhauled or vanish forever. I\u2019ll bet you can think of plenty of really famous and ubiquitous things from your childhood that one day you simply stopped noticing. Happily, sometimes they can be reborn…<\/p>\n

Schwartz knew his market and was open to new ideas, and his creative changes were just appearing in 1971. The new direction was also vanguard and trigger for a wealth of controversial, socially-challenging \u201crealistic\u201d story content unseen since the feature\u2019s earliest days: a wave of tales ultimately described as \u201cRelevant\u201d…<\/p>\n

With iconic covers by Curt Swan, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams, Dick Giordano, Murphy Anderson & Jack Adler, this titanic tome collects in whole or in part the Man of Steel\u2019s first comics renaissance through exploits from Action Comics<\/strong> #393-406 and Superman<\/strong> #233-238 and #240-242, spanning cover dates October 1970 to December 1971.<\/p>\n

On sale from 27th<\/sup> August 1970, Action Comics<\/strong> #393 hinted at rather than heralded a new era as \u2018Syperman Meets Super-Houdini!\u2019<\/em> In a tale by prolific lead super-scribe Leo Dorfman and artists Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson (AKA \u201cSwanderson\u201d) the ultimate hero faces a moral dilemma when reformed crimnal turned escape artist \u201cHair-breadth\u201d Holahan<\/em> is blackmailed to resume his criminal ways – or lose his abducted son. Of course, Superman can help…<\/p>\n

Following a Superman Scrapbook Pinup<\/em>, with Swanderson reworking a classic Golden Age Superman contents page, second strip \u2018The Day Superboy Became Superman!\u2019<\/em> (by Dorfman as Geoff Brown with Ross Andru & Mike Esposito illustrating) depicts a pivotal moment for college boy Clark Kent<\/em> as radical student Marla Harvey<\/em> showed the so-conservative law-&-order adherent what those concepts meant to people trapped in poverty and privation…<\/p>\n

The updating of an icon continued in AC<\/strong> #394 with Swanderson illustrating both \u2018Midas of Metropolis\u2019<\/em> and low key \u201cGeoff Brown\u201d character vignette \u2018Requiem for a Hot Rod\u2019<\/em>. The lead yarn pits Superman against world\u2019s richest man Cyrus Brand<\/em>, who seemingly infects the Action Ace with his own all-encompsing lust for money, only to find the hero is incorruptible and knows actual crime when he sees it, whilst a humourous follow-up sees Clark and Lois Lane <\/strong>at a vintage car event, cleverly exposing a bully rigging games of chicken for cash…<\/p>\n

Action<\/strong> #395 revealed \u2018The Secrets of Superman\u2019s Fortress\u2019<\/em> with a dynamic cutaway spread fuelling an \u201cuntold tale\u201d of an early romantic encounter with a sexy alien Superman could have loved. Sadly, super-powered Althera <\/em>was of an incompatible species… and also a slaver…<\/p>\n

Dorfman was the go-to guy for supernatural tales and weird phenomena articles, and at the forefront of a shift in tone as DC characters and titles embraced the global resurgence in spooky horror and mystery fare. Next here a back-up guest starring Supergirl<\/strong> explores the uncanny powers and shocking truth of accident inducing accessory \u2018The Credit Card of Catastrophe\u2019<\/em>, but comes down down heavily on the side of rationality and confidence trickery in the end…
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\nAs the sixties closed and with his various screen appearances a thing of the past, Superman was soon in dire need of an editorial overhaul. That officially began with Superman<\/strong> #233 in a groundbreaking epic serial edited by incoming reboot wunderkind Julius Schwartz that was heavily promoted in advance. Crafted by scripter Dennis J. \u201cDenny\u201d O\u2019Neil, and ubiquitous illustrators Swan & Anderson – although stand-in Dick Giordano inked #240 – a deliberate and very public abandonment of tired old super-villains, fanciful Kryptonian scenarios and otherworldly paraphernalia instantly poked the readership and revitalised the Man of Tomorrow, attracting new readers and beginning a period of engagingly human-scaled stories making Superman a \u201cmust-buy\u201d character all over again.<\/p>\n

The innovations began with \u2018Superman Breaks Loose\u2019<\/em> as a government experiment to harness Kryptonite as an energy source goes explosively wrong. Closely monitoring the test, the Metropolis Marvel is blasted across the desert surrounding the isolated lab, but somehow survives a supposedly fatal radiation-bath. Then, reports begin filtering in from all over Earth: every piece of the deadly mineral has been transformed to harmless, common iron! As he goes about his protective, preventative patrols, the liberated hero experiences an emotional high at the prospect of all the good he can now accomplish. He isn\u2019t even phased when the Daily Planet\u2019s new owner Morgan Edge<\/em> – a key character created by Jack Kirby for his soon to unfold Fourth World Saga<\/strong> – shakes up Clark Kent\u2019s cosy civilian life: summarily ejecting him from the print game and remaking him as a roving TV journalist…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the desert site of his recent crashlanding offers a moment of deep foreboding as Superman\u2019s irradiated imprint in the sand shockingly grows solid and shambles away in ghastly parody of life…<\/p>\n

Over in Action Comics<\/strong> #396, editors Murray Boltinoff & E. Nelson Bridwell continued in their editorial positions (right up until #419 December 1972) but heralded the beginning of a radical new age with a 2-chapter Imaginary Story (hey, didn\u2019t Alan Moore do that too?) \u2018The Super-Panhandler of Metropolis!\u2019<\/em> was set years from \u201cnow\u201d, where a highly advanced Earth wonders why and how Superman disappeared. Media mogul Jimmy Olsen<\/strong> discovers the shocking truth of the hero\u2019s degrading decline in #397 as \u2018Secret of the Wheel-Chair Superman!\u2019<\/em> sentimentally focuses on a pitiable but still valiant do-gooder giving everything for those in need, and thereby saving himself too.<\/p>\n

For this colossal collection, each issue\u2019s stand-alone back-up has been moved to allow an uninterrupted lead story and for reader convenience of comprehension. Thus, next comes #396\u2019s Brown\/Swanderson teaser \u2018The Invaders from Nowhere!\u2019<\/em>: an intellectual mystery with Superman perplexed and imperiiled by super-technological aliens somehow living inside his own infallible arctic citadel. It is bolstered by the legendary ad that announced the big change in Metropolis…
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\nRendered by Swan & Vince Colletta, \u2018A New Year Brings a New Beginning for Superman 1971\u2019<\/em> announced Clark\u2019s job change and enhanced cast, trumpeted that Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane would be joined by The Newsboy Legion<\/strong> and Rose and the Thorn<\/strong> and that Supergirl would get a new look, as well as suspending the venerable World\u2019s Finest <\/strong>team of Superman, Batman & Robin<\/strong>, with the title becoming a Superman team-up book…<\/p>\n

\u2018The Super-Captive of the Sea!\u2019 <\/em>was AC<\/strong> #<\/em>397\u2019s closer, wherein the Man of Tomorrow is indefinitely trapped beneath the oceans thanks to aquatic aliens flooding Earth\u2019s skies with red sun refracting crystal clouds. They wanted Superman for their own world, but foolishly understimated his ingenuity and determination…<\/p>\n

O\u2019Niel & Swanderson\u2019s intensely sophisticated suspenseful overhaul properly resumes in Superman<\/strong> #234\u2019s \u2018How to Tame a Wild Volcano!\u2019 <\/em>as an out-of-control, politically untouchable plantation owner\/human trafficker refuses to let his indentured workforce flee an imminent eruption on the island of Boki. Handicapped by international laws, the Man of Steel can only fume helplessly as the UN blunders towards a diplomatic solution, and his anxiety intensifies when a sinister sand-thing inadvertently and agonisingly drains him of his powers. Crashed to Earth in a turbulent squall, the de-powered champion is attacked by work boss Boysie Harker<\/em>\u2019s thugs and instantly responds to the foolish provocation, relying for a change on determination rather than overwhelming might to save the day…<\/p>\n

In #235, the \u2018Sinister Scream of the Devil\u2019s Harp\u2019<\/em> tacitly acknowledged fasionable arcane influences – remember, the comics industry and wider world was enjoying a periodic revival of interest in supernatural themes and stories – as mystery musician and apparent polymath Ferlin Nyxly<\/em> reveals the secret of his ever-growing aptitudes and gifts is an archaic artefact which steals from living beings knowledge, talents and even Superman\u2019s alien abilities. The Man of Steel is initially unaware of the drain as he\u2019s trying to communicate with his eerily silent dusty doppelganger, but once Nyxly graduates to a full-on raving super-menace self-proclaimed \u201cPan\u201d<\/em>, the taciturn homunculus unexpectedly joins its living template to trounce the power plunderer…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Youth\u201d and their music take centre stage in Action<\/strong> #398 as Kent\u2019s news round-up of the college campus scene unmasks sinister sonic skulduggery that – accidentally combined with Kryptonian recording tech – makes Superman an out-of-control rioter thanks to \u2018The Pied Piper of Steel\u2019<\/em>, after which Dorfman\/Brown reveal a horrifiying transformation for Supergirl into a \u2018Spawn of the Unknown\u2019<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Superman<\/strong> #236 offered a Batman<\/strong> cameo and science fictional morality play when cherubic E.T.\u2019s seek Superman\u2019s assistance to defeat a band of devils and rescue Kent\u2019s friends from Hell. However, the \u2018Planet of the Angels\u2019<\/em> proves to be nothing of the kind, and the Man of Steel must pull out all the stops to save his adopted homeworld from a very real Armageddon, whilst in Action<\/strong> #399 \u2018Superman, You\u2019re Dead… Dead… Dead!\u2019<\/em>, finds the hero trapped with other great men of the past abducted by future historians and accidentally discovering a ghastly end that awaits him, before realising that something\u2019s not quite right, whilst B-feature \u2018Superbaby\u2019s Lost World\u2019 <\/em>sees the Tot of Tomorrow lost in a theme park and exploited as cover by charismatic bandits Connie <\/em>& Hyde<\/em>. Of course this innocent waif is far more than anyone can handle…<\/p>\n

Superman<\/strong> #237 sees him save an astronaut only to see him succumb to a madness-inducing mutative disease. After another savage confrontation with the Sand-thing further debilitates him, the harried hero is present as more mortals fall to the contagion. Convinced he is both carrier and cause, the \u2018Enemy of Earth\u2019 <\/em>considers quarantining in space. Meanwhile, Lois tumbles into another lethal predicament and Kal-el\u2019s instinctive intervention seemingly confirms his earlier diagnosis, before another clash with the sandy simulacrum on the edge of space presents an incredible truth.<\/p>\n

Painfully debilitated, Superman nevertheless saves Lois and again meets the ever-more human creature. Now able to speak, it offers a chilling warning and the Man of Steel realises exactly what it is taking from him and what it might become…<\/p>\n

In Action <\/strong>#400 \u2018My Son… Is He Man or Beast?\u2019<\/em> sees Superman made reluctant guardian to troubled teen Gregor Nagy<\/em>: an angry boy with astounding shapeshifting powers that will inevitably kill him, whilst back-up \u2018Duel of Doom!\u2019<\/em> offers an untold Tale of Kandor as students, rivals and lovers Yllura <\/em>and Arvor<\/em> vie for academic awards, almost die together and ultimately learn the value of teamwork and togetherness…<\/p>\n

The Man of Tomorrow is a mere shadow of his former self in Superman<\/strong> #238, unable to prevent terrorists taking over a magma-tapping drilling rig and endangering all Earth in \u2018Menace at 1000 Degrees!\u2019<\/em> With Lois among their hostages and the madmen threatening to detonate a nuke in the pipeline, the Action Ace desperately begs his doppelganger to assist him, but its cold rejection forces the depleted hero to take the biggest gamble of his life…<\/p>\n

Superman<\/strong> #239 was an all-reprint giant featuring the hero in his incalculably all-powerful days – so not included here – before Action Comics<\/strong> #401 & 402 address the growing contemporary political crisis of First Nations\u2019 rights in \u2018Invaders Go Home\u2019<\/em> and \u2018This Hostage Must Die!\u2019<\/em> The continued tale sees Superman taken hostage by Indian protesters seeking to stop the US government taking a piece of sacred ground for a rocket base. Despite being apparently helpless before the magic of Angry Young Medicineman Dan Red Hawk<\/em> the Action Ace is playing a covert game and hunting a criminal profit motive behind all the passionate rhetoric and popular dissent…<\/p>\n

Cary Bates scripted #401\u2019s back-up yarn as \u2018The Boy Whe Begged to Die!\u2019<\/em> sees our hero forced to use his superwits when he\u2019s accidentally activates a mega-timebomb and fails to evacuate every civilian in time whilst Brown delivers #402\u2019s \u2018The Feud of the Titans!\u2019<\/em> as Superman and Supergirl inexplicably go to war for possesion of the Fortress of Solitude…<\/p>\n

The physically diminished Caped Kryptonian returned in Superman #240 (O\u2019Neil, Swan and Dick Giordano inks) to confront his own lessened state and seek a solution. In \u2018To Save a Superman\u2019<\/em>, his inability to extinguish a tenement fire and the wider world\u2019s realisation that their unconquerable champion is now vulnerable and fallible makes his dilemma dangerously common knowledge. Especially interested are the Anti-Superman Gang<\/em> who immediately allocate all resources to destroying their nemesis. After one particularly close call, Clark is visited by an ancient Asian sage who somehow knows his other identity and offers an unconventional solution…<\/p>\n

From 1968 superhero comics began to decline – just as they had at the end of the 1940s – so publishers sought fresh ways to maintain their readerships as tastes changed. Back then, the industry depended on newsstand sales, and if you weren\u2019t popular, you died. Editor Jack Miller, innovating illustrator Mike Sekowsky and relatively new scripter Denny O\u2019Neil came up with a radical proposal and made history by depowering the only female superhero then in the marketplace. They had the mystical Amazons leave our dimension, taking with them all their magic – including Wonder Woman<\/strong>\u2018s powers and all her weapons…<\/p>\n

Reduced to humble humanity she chose to stay on Earth, assuming and legitimising her own secret identity of Diana Prince<\/em> and resolved to fighting injustice as a mortal. Tutored by blind Buddhist monk I Ching<\/em>, she trained as a martial artist, and quickly became a formidable enemy of contemporary evil. Now, I Ching claims he can repair Superman\u2019s difficulties and restore his dwindling might, but evil eyes are watching. Arriving clandestinely, Superman allows the adept to remove his remaining Kryptonian powers as a precursor to fully regaining them, allowing the ASG opportunity to strike. In the resultant brutal melee, the all-too-human hero triumphs in the hardest fight of his life…<\/p>\n

The saga continues with Swanderson back on art in #241, withSuperman overcoming momentary but nigh-overwhelming temptation to put down his oppressive burden of duty and lead a normal life. Admonished and resolved, he submits to Ching\u2019s resumed remedy ritual and finds his spirit soaring to where the sand-being lurks, before explosively reclaiming the stolen powers. Leaving the gritty golem a shattered husk, the astral Kal-El brings the awesome energies back to their true owner and a triumphant hero returns to saving the world…<\/p>\n

Over the next few days, however, it becomes clear that something has gone wrong. The Man of Tomorrow has become arrogant, erratic and unpredictable, acting rashly, overreacting and even making stupid mistakes. In her boutique, Diana Prince discusses the problem with Ching and the sagacious teacher deduces that whilst merely mortal and fighting ASG thugs, Superman received punishing blows to the head which have caused a brain injury that did not heal when his powers returned…<\/p>\n

When the out-of-control hero refuses to listen, Diana & Ching track down the dying sand-thing and beg its aid. The elderly savant recognises it as a formless creature from other-dimensional Quarrm<\/em> and listens to the amazing story of its entrance into our world. He also suggests a way for it to regain some of what it recently lost…<\/p>\n

Superman, meanwhile, has blithely gone about his deranged business until savagely attacked by a statue of a Chinese war-demon. Also able to steal his power, it has been possessed by a second fugitive from Quarrm. It has no conscience and wears \u2018The Shape of Fear!<\/em>\u2019…
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\nThe shocking saga concludes in \u2018The Ultimate Battle\u2019<\/em> as the second Quarrmer falls under the sway of two petty thugs who use it to put freshly de-powered Superman into hospital…<\/p>\n

Rushed into emergency surgery, the Kryptonian fights for his life as sand-thing confronts war-demon in the streets. Events take an even more bizarre turn once the latter drives off its foe and turns towards the hospital to finish off the flesh-&-blood Superman…<\/p>\n

Regaining consciousness – and a portion of his power – the Metropolis Marvel battles the beast to a standstill but needs the aid of his silicon stand-in to drive the thing back beyond the pale. With the immediate threat ended, Man of Steel and Man of Sand face off one last time, each determined to ensure his own existence no matter the cost…<\/p>\n

The stunning conclusion was a brilliant stroke on the part of the creators, one which left Superman approximately half the Man of Tomorrow he used to be. Of course, he eventually returned to his unassailable, god-like power levels but never quite regained the tension-free smug assurance of his pre-1970s self…<\/p>\n

For now though, with the epic ended day-to-day dilemmas resume with Action <\/strong>#403 and Bates & Swanderson\u2019s \u2018Attack of the Micro-Murderer\u2019<\/em>, wherein the Krptonian is attacked and fatally infected by sentient time-travelling micobe Zohtt<\/em> before millions of earthlings donate blood to flush his system clean, after which Brown channels Daniel Keyes\u2019 Flowers for Algernon<\/strong> for \u2018The Man With the X-Ray Mind\u2019<\/em> as an intellectually-challenged janitor develops and tragically loses astounding mental abilities…<\/p>\n

Dorfman scripted #404\u2019s \u2018Kneel to Your Conqueror, Superman!\u2019<\/em> wherein governemntal secret weapon\/supergenius Rufus Caesar<\/em> goes rogue and devises tech to steal The Action Ace\u2019s powers, before inevitably overreaching and reaping every tyrant\u2019s fate. As Geoff Brown, the multi-faceted writer offers another glimpse at our hero\u2019s college years with \u2018The Day They Killed Clark Kent\u2019 <\/em>relating a memorable teaching moment after a hazing incident is covertly commandeered and redirected by the Adolescent of Steel. Then Bates introduces \u2018The Starry-Eyed Siren of Space!\u2019<\/em> in Superman<\/strong> #243, as cosmic catastrophe catapults the Caped Kryptonian into an encounter with disembodied ultra-mentalities Kond & Rija<\/em>. Sadly, the latter recalls the long forgotten joys of physicality and constructs an organic form to woo Superman, leaving Rija no choice but to do similar and win back his mate…<\/p>\n

\u2018Superman, Bodyguard or Assassin?!\u2019<\/em> leads in Action<\/strong> #405, as Bates posits an Imaginary Story near future where a Psy-ops expert turns the Man of Steel into an assassin pointed at the US President. He follows up with regulation continuity thriller \u2018The Most Dangerous Bug in the World?\u2019<\/em> as Clark Kent is swept up in a product demo that threatens to expose his secret identity. Over in Superman <\/strong>#244, O\u2019Neil anticipates early AI anxiety and human responses via the rampages of \u2018The Electronic Ghost of Metropolis!\u2019<\/em>, before AC<\/strong> #406 sees Dorfman deal with the rise of counter cultures and semi-religious cults as telejournalist Clark Kent investigates a charismatic \u2018Master of Miracles\u2019<\/em>. What he discovers is a devious plot orchestrated by someone very close to his home and his heart…<\/p>\n

For the same issue, the writer dons his \u201cBrown\u201d mantle to expose a restless and beleagured supernatural alchemist inhabiting the Tower of London for centuries as \u2018The Ghost That Haunted Clark Kent\u2019<\/em> before the wraparound superhero-bedecked cover for all reprint giant Superman <\/strong>#245 and Curt Swan\u2019s pencilled model sheet \u2018The Man of Many Faces\u2019<\/em> penultimately usher in final wonder \u2018Danger… Monster at Work!\u2019<\/em> from #246, with Len Wein debuting as super-scribe and introducing an extended cast of Clark Kent\u2019s neighbours in a wry and witty warning tale of pollution gone mad and monsters in Metropolis\u2019 sewers, perfectly limned by Swan & Anderson…<\/p>\n

A fresh approach, snappy dialogue and more human-scaled concerns to balance outrageous implausible fantasy elements all wedded to gripping plots and sublime art make Kryptonite Nevermore <\/strong>one of the very best Superman sagas ever created, and its wonderful to see the other stories of the time included for balance and to prove that this was very much the Man of Steel getting his long-needed second wind for the next comics age.<\/p>\n

A must-have graphic collection to sit on the same shelf as Watchmen<\/strong>, Batman: Year One<\/strong>, Segar\u2019s Popeye<\/strong>, Gottfredson\u2019s Mickey Mouse<\/strong>, The Fourth World Saga<\/strong>, Kirby & Lee\u2019s Galactus Trilogy<\/strong> and Chaykin\u2019s American Flagg<\/strong>!, this is a shining exemplar of action- adventure comics captured at their most perfect moment. Why don\u2019t you have this yet?
\n\u00a9 1970, 1971, 2025 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dennis O\u2019Neil, Leo Dorfman, Cary Bates, Len Wein, Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, Dick Giordano, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-79950-165-7 (TPB\/Digital edition) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times This stunning compilation is part of the DC Finest editions line: full … <\/p>\n

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