What is your favorite version of Superman?

[Bored at 3:00AM]

It can be a writer/artist team's depiction or a cartoon or an actor or film, cartoon, TV show...whatever

Who do you picture in your head when you think "Superman"?

I think you could all guess who mine is

[K7P5V]

The Loeb/McGuinness version is my all-time favorite

[Vordan]

No real surprise there but Quietly is definitely the guy who defines Superman and his world in my mind. If I had to pick a bunch of real actors though, “my” Superman looks like Welling, acts like Hoechlin, and sounds like Tim Daly.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

No real surprise there but Quietly is definitely the guy who defines Superman and his world in my mind. If I had to pick a bunch of real actors though, “my” Superman looks like Welling, acts like Hoechlin, and sounds like Tim Daly.

You're one of those guys who plays roulette by placing bets on everything, aren't you?

[Buried Alien]

Christopher Reeve and Pre-COIE Bronze Age Earth-One.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Alpha]

Even though it's supposed to be someone else, Superman Secret Identity is the best depiction of how Superman should feel to me.

[MRP]

For me, the Fleischer cartoons hands down...



and in comics, the original Siegel/Shuster version, in particular the Superman from the daily and Sunday comics strips and the first couple dozen issues of Action Comics.

-M

[Multiverse]

It's a mix between All Star Superman and the DC Animated Universe.

[The Frog Bros]

All Star is at the top of my list. Jurgens 1990s era has a special place in my heart because it's when I started reading in earnest. When I close my eyes and picture Superman, Curt Swan's version is what immediately comes to mind.

So I guess depending on the day, it would be one of those three for me.

[Riv86672]

John Byrne, of course.

[superduperman]

Ruby Spears Superman

Donner movies

Smallville.

[manwhohaseverything]

right now?dwayne the rock johnson.Maybe in an alternate timeline.

[Jim Kelly]

I spent almost every month in the 1970s reading Superman comics. Such that, Superman became one of my best companions--I felt like I knew this guy inside and out. However, the better part of the 1970s I was going through my adolescence--and it was a sentimental desire to return to an earlier phase of my life, my childhood, that made me pick up SUPERMAN and ACTION COMCS again. I hadn't read a lot of Superman comics in the 1960s (probably less than 50), but I read them over and over and over and I remembered the fun I had with those. And the more 1960s comics I read now, the more I love them--they might not be high art, but they're a gas.

[Quinlan58]

Busiek's take is what I immediately default to in my mind. Both in-continuity and in Secret Identity.

[Robanker]

Live action: Christopher Reeve.
Animation: Clark's never been in anything long-form that's outstanding, but I suppose Fleischer. I like a lot of STAS, but having seen those shorts on the big screen... There's a magic quality to them.
Animation (Voice): Hard call, but toss-up between Newburn and MacLachlan.
Comics (written): It is hard to beat All-Star Superman. Not getting into the mile long list of honorable mentions.
Comics (visual): Evan "Doc" Shaner's Superman is timeless. He can be from the 30s, today or 2050 and still look like he fits. Absolute perfection.

Even though it's supposed to be someone else, Superman Secret Identity is the best depiction of how Superman should feel to me.

Underrated take. Secret Identity rules.