{"id":87,"date":"2007-03-17T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-17T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=87"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:43:38","slug":"superman-the-man-of-steel-vol-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/17\/superman-the-man-of-steel-vol-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: The Man of Steel Vol 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/sms.jpg\" title=\"Superman: The Man of Steel Vol 5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/sms.jpg\" alt=\"Superman: The Man of Steel Vol 5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By various<\/p>\n<p>(DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-390-4<\/p>\n<p>This volume reprints <strong>Superman<\/strong> #9-11, <strong>Action Comics<\/strong> #592-593 and <strong>Adventures of Superman<\/strong> #432-435 from 1987 when the post-<strong>Crisis<\/strong> revamp was in full swing and a fine team of comics creators was going all-out to prove a dubious public wrong in their belief that nothing could make the Caped Kryptonian exciting again.<\/p>\n<p>John Byrne and Marv Wolfman were responsible for writing these tales and the former was also half the drawing team. In <em>To Laugh and Die in Metropolis<\/em> Superman meets the Joker for the first time in a murderous battle of wits, before moving on to tackle a <em>Gangwar<\/em>, courtesy of Wolfman and artists Jerry Ordway and P. Craig Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne, with inks by Keith Williams, then teams the Man of Steel with Big Barda and Mr. Miracle in <em>A Walk on the Darkside<\/em> and <em>The Suicide Snare<\/em> and has him battle Luthor again in <em>The Super Menace of Metropolis<\/em>, aided by the inking of Karl Kesel. Bob Smith joins Ordway on art duties for <em>A Tragedy in Five Acts<\/em> the second part of <em>Gangwar<\/em>, and Byrne and Kesel reintroduce the fifth dimensional prankster Mr. Mxyzptlk in <em>The Name Game.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wolfman, Ordway and Jos\u00c3\u00a9 Marzan complete this edition with <em>Shambles<\/em> and <em>The Circle Turns<\/em>, two slower tales that build on the strong continuity and character interactions that typified this incarnation of the Man of Tomorrow. Seeing these stories collected in this way illustrates just how much planning went into the three <strong>Superman<\/strong> titles. These volumes read much more like books than collections and with the quality of writing and art improving from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chapter\u00e2\u20ac\u009d this is a series you should seriously consider seeking out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 1987 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By various (DC Comics)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84576-390-4 This volume reprints Superman #9-11, Action Comics #592-593 and Adventures of Superman #432-435 from 1987 when the post-Crisis revamp was in full swing and a fine team of comics creators was going all-out to prove a dubious public wrong in their belief that nothing could make the Caped Kryptonian &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/03\/17\/superman-the-man-of-steel-vol-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: The Man of Steel Vol 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[76,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-superhero","category-superman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}