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Elliot S! Maggin's Miracle Monday vs Alan Moore's Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? - (The Miracles and Tragedies of Pre-Crisis Bronze Age Superman)

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Link to Post on Reddit This is a post I've been meaning to make for over a year now. This will be divided into 5 segments after this brief introduction, feel free to read at your own pace: Identity Crisis Man of Tomorrow The Impossible Foe The Sanctity of Life Miracles and Tragedies Pre-Crisis Superman comics are heavily underrated these days. I'm a younger fan myself and it seems most older fans relative to me that I know grew up with early to late Post-Crisis, and so they heavily prefer that era. However, a lot of great Superman writers from that and even the current era like Mark Waid and Grant Morrison greatly prefer that older era, and have themselves criticized and/or retconned elements Byrne introduced in his reboot. So have Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek in their runs. Because of this, a lot of fans in my generation seem to be following suit in appreciating it. There are plenty of great creators and works in the Bronze Age specifically. Shoutout of course to Cary Bates, an