What are your Favorite Superman stories?

[Kuwagaton]

Off the top of my head:

My favorite stretch is Superman #292-#303
Action #421 and #458
"What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?"
Superman #164
"Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"
"Saved!"

Canon... eh, just the Morrison run.

[manduck37]

Let's see, off the top of my head.

Morrison's Action Comics run
Pak's Action comics
For The Man Who Has Everything
All-Star Superman
Superman Chronicles: Kryptonite
Superman: Birthright
The Death of Superman, Funeral for a Friend, and Reign of the Supermen (this is when I started reading Superman regularly, so it holds a special place in my heart)
Brainiac by Geoff Johns
What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow
Kingdom Come
Red Son
Secret Identity
There was also a one shot story by Busiek where an elderly woman though Superman was her angel. I don't remember the name of the story, but I loved it. I'll have to see what issue that one was...

I'll probably think of more. That's a mix of old continuity, new continuity and some Elseworlds/out of continuity stuff.

[Johnny Thunders!]

I can't believe this, but I just read For Tomorrow for the 2nd or 3rd time and I enjoyed it. Loved the Phantom Zone stuff, loved the robots he built, loved the Fortress stuff... Even the exaggerated Superman brooding was very Silver Age. It has a ton of Silver Age touches! Superman doesn't kill in this story either.

[BBally]

In no particular order:

All Star Superman

John Byrne's Man of Steel

Jim Starlin's DC Presents 3 parter

Birthright

Luthor's Gift

It's Superman

Smallville Season 11 arcs

Most of Elliot S! Maggin's Superman stories

What's So Funny About Truth Justice And The American Way?

Golden Age Champion of the Oppressed stories

Death, Funeral and Reign

The Challenge Of Luthor

Jack Kirby's Jimmy Olsen run

Superman Vs Muhammad Ali

Grant Morrison's Action Comics

Death of Superman (imaginary story by Otto Binder)

Brainiac's debut

Kara's debut

The Great Darkness Saga (legion story)

The Gang War arc (Byrnes/Wolvman/Ordway)

Up, Up And Away

Back In Action

Camelot Falls

Superman And The Legion of Superheroes

Mark Millar's Superman Adventures stories

Sandman Superman

Superman #712

Superman's Return to Krypton

The Team of Luthor and Brainiac

Superman in Kandor

The Last Days Of Superman

Who Took The Super Out Of Superman

The Living Legends of Superman (Superman #400)

Superman This Is Your Life

DC Presents 50

Superman/Shazam stories

The Einstein connection-Ghost of the Superman Future

Superman appearance in Hitman

For All Seasons

Red Son

Secret Identity

Panic In The Sky

John's Brainiac

Under The Red Sun

The Duel Between Luthor and Superman

Luthor Unleashed

Though I think his run is overrated, I do like Moore's stories

Chris Roberson's run on Grounded

[Pharozonk]

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
For the Man Who Has Everything
Superman and the Legion of Superheroes
What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?
Time and Time Again

[Charlton_Hero]

In my comic geekdom I am 80% Marvel, though my shelf does have Birthright, Red Son, What Ever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, Kingdom Come, and the Alex Ross Superman ...Hunger (going from memory). The bulk of my Superman reads are Elseworlds.

I'd love to learn your favorite, preferrably canon, Superman stories.

Sadly mine are both elseworldy as well. I loved 1980s Superman and his DC Comics Presents team ups. Two that stuck out were his cross over with The Masters of the Universe as well as his cross over with Captain Carrot! DC Comics Presents 47.jpg

I wrote a little blog post on it a while back if anyone wants to check it out! This had classic Curt Swan Superman and He-Man! I was 8 years old reading this and loved it..it hasnt aged well but still love it to this day!!

https://charltonhero.wordpress.com/2...e-dc-universe/

Love the selections I see here on the forums and am going to check a bunch out now! Thanks guys!

[George Taylor]

Current canon:
Grant Morrison's Action Comics run, especially Superman and the Men of Steel.
Greg Pak's first arc including Action Comics #25.

Post-Crisis canon:
Johns' Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Escape from Bizarro World and Brainiac, Kurt Busiek's 'run, Johns and Busiek's Up, Up and Away. Joe Casey's Adventures of Superman run, Time and Time Again, Panic in the Sky.

Pre-Crisis:
Alan Moore's Superman stories, Jerry Siegel's Golden Age Superman run, Death of Superman, Superman Red & Superman Blue, Superman's Return to Krypton, There Must Be a Superman?, Last Days of Superman.

Elseworlds/Out of Continuity:
All-Star Superman (My favorite Superman story ever) and Red Son.

[tomstewdevine]

All Star Superman and Byrne's Run are my favorite but recently my buddy got some comics and it had this crossover with a sick cover of all a bunch of superheros getting nuked, the interesting part was that it was a perfect match to the cover from the previous month, except the superheros had not been hit by a bomb. We talk about it in this weeks episode of A Comic Book look.

[gburr60]

All-Star Superman
Superman For All Seasons
Red Son
Earth one vol 1&2
All of Geoff John's Superman stuff

I'm really digging Greg Pak on Action Comics currently

[DetectiveStrange]

Golden Age
Superman, Champion of the Oppressed! (AC #1-2)
Superman versus Luthor (SM #4)
What if Superman Ended the War?
The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk (SM #30)

Silver Age
The Super Key to Fort Superman (AC #241)
The Battle with Bizarro (Superboy #68)
The Girl from Superman's Part (SM #129)
Superman's Return to Krypton (SM #141)
Superboy's Big Brother (Superboy #89)
The Showdown between Luthor and Superman (SM #164)

Bronze Age
Superman/Miracle Monday (Maggin novels)
Superman vs Muhammad Ali
Superman vs Mongul (Moore, Starlin)
Phantom Zone (Gerber/Kane)
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

Post-Crisis Ongoing Series
Byrne's Run
Stern's Run
Kelly's Run
Johns' 1st Run
New Krypton Crossover
Johns' 2nd Run

Post-Crisis Specials/Elseworlds
All-Star Superman
Birthright
For All Seasons
Secret Identity
Red Son
Morrison's Action Comics

[Ilan Preskovsky]

All Star Superman and Secret Identity are the big ones for me. They're pretty much polar opposite takes on Superman but both get right to why he's such an enduring character. All Star, in particular, is to my mind at least, the single greatest superhero story of all time - or at the very least the quintessential superhero story that should be read by anyone who wants to truly understand what's so great about the genre.

Other than those two, I really like/ love Red Son, Moore's '80s Superman stories, Morrison's Action Comics (despite my general hatred towards most of the New 52), certain portions of the Loeb/ Kelly/ Schultz years and Birthright and I will always have a soft spot for the Triangle era (Simonson, Jurgens, Stern etc.) in the 1990s, even if just purely for nostalgic reasons.

[Angelo2113]

New Krypton is my favorite Superman story. I felt that was an amazing "final story" for the Pre-52 Superman that brought together all the surrounding mythology of the character. (That's mainly the reason I have no problem with the New 52 Superman.)

Death of Superman has the most impact on me because that was the first actual comic book story I read of Superman when I was really young.

Final Crisis: Superman Beyond is my favorite Grant Morrison written Superman story.

John Byrne's Man of Steel run was fantastic and different. Especially with Jimmy Olsen's Mom being a hottie...sorry, Jimmy.

Geoff Johns Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes is one of my favorites. Enjoying his current run, too.

Still have to read Birthright. Mark Waid and Alex Ross' Kingdom Come was freaking unbelievably awesome.

Really enjoying Superman: Unchained, at the moment.