Creepy Watch

It's creepy enough that Vandal Savage is peeping through the curtains at Superman and Lois' intimate moment...but then to have Luthor and Jimmy spying on Vandal and commenting on his emotional needs just amps up the creepiness.

Script by Marv Wolfman
Pencils by Curt Swan
Inks by Frank Chiaramonte
Colors by Gene D'Angelo
Letters by Ben Oda

Action Comics #516
Time And Time Again!
February 1981
Copyright (c) DC Comics

The >sob< Lois Lane >gasp< Emotional Trainwreck >choke< Week #2

Poor Lois...so distraught is she about the machinations of that scheming female, that she's crying in her sleep and in her dreams!

Script by Jerry Siegel
Pencils by Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks by Kurt Schaffenberger

Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #56
Lois Lane's Super Gamble
April 1965
Copyright (c) DC Comics

Sunday versus #16

Superman vs. Rampaging Dinosaur Horde

Sixteen Sunday battles versus dinosaurs in, and I don't think Superman is taking this seriously anymore. Skipping into a raging pack of dinosaurs?

It's like you're not even trying anymore.

Script by Marv Wolfman
Pencils by Curt Swan
Inks by Frank Chiaramonte
Colors by Gene D'Angelo
Letters by Ben Oda

Action Comics #516
Time And Time Again!
February 1981
Copyright (c) DC Comics

The Many Lives of Superman #7

The Many Lives of Superman


Editor In Chief!

Script by ?
Pencils by Al Plastino
Inks by Al Plastino

Action Comics #302
The Amazing Confession of Super-Perry White!
July 1963
Copyright (c) DC Comics

Welcome sports readers!

We interrupt our regular blog postings to bring you this special sports update!

So apparently two divergent worlds collided over the weekend, as a sports blog linked to a comic book blog! No, the resulting matter/anti-matter collision didn't end up breaking the internet, in fact there was no downside at all. What did happen, was that there was a whole slew of new people checking out Superman 101.

And to throw a bone to whatever new readers decided to stick around for another day, here's a sports themed post for today.


It's time to test your sports trivia against the man of steel! Can you help settle the bet between Jimmy and Steve before Superman!

Have fun. I'll post the answers in the comment section tomorrow if no one pipes up with the right answer.

Script by Gerry Conway
Pencils by Curt Swan
Inks by Frank Chiaramonte
Colors by Gene D'Angelo
Letters by Todd Klein

Action Comics #518
Treasure Hunt On A Small Planet!
April 1981
Copyright (c) DC Comics

The Many Lives of Superman #3

The Many Lives of Superman

Tramp!

Script by Leo Dorfman
Pencils by Al Plastino
Inks by Al Plastino

Action Comics #337
From Riches To Rags
May 1966
Copyright (c) DC Comics

The Weekly Panel of Steel #1

I realize that I'm only three posts into this whole endeavor, but it's already time to debut the first of one of our (soon to be plentiful, I hope) regular features.

Every Thursday we'll take a quick gander through the new books that got released that week and find the best Superman pic of the bunch...and it shall be crowned the Weekly Panel of Steel!

There was only one "official" Superman book this week, and that was Superman 80-Page Giant 2011, with a kick-ass cover by Dustin Nguyen. I had all intentions of making his cover the winner this week, as I haven't been too thrilled with the recent spate of 80 pagers and actually wasn't planning on picking this up at all. Boy, was I misinformed. There were easily three or four awesome contenders, but the win goes to this one...


It's from the Jimmy Olsen story where Jimmy and Superman have to round up the 100 Jimmy Olsen clones that have been let loose in Metropolis. With each successive clone they find, the predicaments that they got themselves into just get weirder and weirder.

I love the composition on this panel, with the burned out clone strewn across the alley handcuffed to a demon's claw, to the silhouettes of Superman and Jimmy with just their iconic symbols colored. Fantastic stuff.

This particular story was written by Abhay Khosla and drawn by Andy MacDonald, and while I have never come across their names before, they're definitely on my radar now.

Story by Abhay Khosla
Artwork by Andy MacDonald
Colors by Chris Beckett
Letters by Sal Cipriano

Superman 80-Page Giant 2011 #1
Quarter-Life Crisis of Infinite Jimmy Olsens
April 2011
Copyright (c) DC Comics