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... that John Byrne retold the
origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel? Source: Manning, Matthew K. (2010). "1980s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom:
Dorling Kindersley. p. 221.
ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. In the six-issue miniseries entitled [The] Man of Steel, the mammoth task of remaking Superman fell to popular writer/artist John Byrne...The result was an overwhelming success, popular with fans both old and new.
ALT2: ... that John Byrne was both the writer and artist for Fantastic Four comic books and his work on the title has been called a "second golden age"? Source: Plowright, Frank, ed. (1997). The Slings and Arrows Comic Guide. London, United Kingdom:
Aurum Press.
ISBN1854104861.
ALT3: ... that John Byrne retold the
origin of Superman in the 1986 comic book limited series The Man of Steel, 48 years after the character was created? Source: Manning, Matthew K. (2010). "1980s". In Dolan, Hannah (ed.). DC Comics Year By Year A Visual Chronicle. London, United Kingdom:
Dorling Kindersley. p. 221.
ISBN978-0-7566-6742-9. In the six-issue miniseries entitled [The] Man of Steel, the mammoth task of remaking Superman fell to popular writer/artist John Byrne...The result was an overwhelming success, popular with fans both old and new.
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
Other problems: - Approving all but ALT1. Source says they cannot definitively determine that The Man of Steel (1986) was the first comic book to make use of variant covers.
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FormalDude: Are there any preferences between the main hook and ALT3, in terms of which is more interesting or better written?
FlairTale (
talk) 06:42, 23 September 2023 (UTC)
Slight preference to ALT3 for being potentially more interesting, I'd be fine with either though. ––
FormalDude(talk) 03:13, 26 September 2023 (UTC)