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Superman Books
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Superman: Red Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 234 times as superman)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,396 ratings — published 2003
Superman for All Seasons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as superman)
avg rating 4.22 — 17,971 ratings — published 1998
Superman: Birthright (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as superman)
avg rating 4.18 — 14,120 ratings — published 2003
All-Star Superman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as superman)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,639 ratings — published 2006
Superman: Earth One, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as superman)
avg rating 3.92 — 19,077 ratings — published 2010
All-Star Superman, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as superman)
avg rating 4.11 — 45,739 ratings — published 2007
The Death of Superman (Comic)
by (shelved 136 times as superman)
avg rating 3.94 — 18,666 ratings — published 1992
Superman: Secret Origin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as superman)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,470 ratings — published 2009
Superman: Secret Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as superman)
avg rating 4.28 — 8,441 ratings — published 2004
Superman: Brainiac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as superman)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,161 ratings — published 2008
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as superman)
avg rating 4.14 — 13,435 ratings — published 1985
Superman: Last Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as superman)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,469 ratings — published 2008
Superman – Action Comics, Volume 1: Superman and the Men of Steel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as superman)
avg rating 3.76 — 8,135 ratings — published 2012
Superman: The Man of Steel, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as superman)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,382 ratings — published 1986
Superman: Earth One, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as superman)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,046 ratings — published 2012
All-Star Superman, Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as superman)
avg rating 4.33 — 15,468 ratings — published 2009
Kingdom Come (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as superman)
avg rating 4.26 — 67,672 ratings — published 1996
Superman, Vol. 1: Son of Superman (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as superman)
avg rating 3.88 — 3,447 ratings — published 2017
The Return of Superman (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as superman)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,088 ratings — published 1993
Superman Smashes the Klan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as superman)
avg rating 4.51 — 7,339 ratings — published 2020
Superman: Peace On Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as superman)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,053 ratings — published 1998
Superman/Batman, Vol. 1: Public Enemies (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as superman)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,665 ratings — published 2004
Superman: American Alien (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as superman)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,687 ratings — published 2015
Superman: Up in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as superman)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,625 ratings — published 2020
Superman: Earth One, Volume 3 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as superman)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,806 ratings — published 2015
Superman, Volume 1: What Price Tomorrow? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as superman)
avg rating 3.52 — 3,080 ratings — published
Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as superman)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,041 ratings — published 2008
Superman/Batman, Vol. 2: Supergirl (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as superman)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,176 ratings — published 2004
Superman, Vol. 2: Trials of the Super Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as superman)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,159 ratings — published 2017
Superman: Lois and Clark (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as superman)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,518 ratings — published 2016
Lex Luthor: Man of Steel (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as superman)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,003 ratings — published 2006
Superman: Action Comics, Vol. 1: Path of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as superman)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,747 ratings — published 2017
Superman Unchained (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as superman)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,311 ratings — published 2014
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as superman)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,237 ratings — published 1986
World Without a Superman (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as superman)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,310 ratings — published 1993
Superman: Up, Up, and Away! (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as superman)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,035 ratings — published 2006
Superman: Kryptonite (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as superman)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,355 ratings — published 2007
Superman: For Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as superman)
avg rating 3.33 — 1,695 ratings — published 2007
Superman, Vol. 1: The Unity Saga: Phantom Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as superman)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,368 ratings — published 2019
Superman – Action Comics, Volume 2: Bulletproof (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as superman)
avg rating 3.44 — 2,173 ratings — published 2013
Batman/Superman, Volume 1: Cross World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as superman)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,279 ratings — published 2014
Superman, Vol. 4: Black Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as superman)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,010 ratings — published 2017
Superman/Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Power Couple (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as superman)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,170 ratings — published 2014
Superman, Vol. 3: Multiplicity (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as superman)
avg rating 3.41 — 1,258 ratings — published 2017
Superman: Action Comics, Vol. 2: Welcome to the Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as superman)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,074 ratings — published 2017
The Man of Steel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as superman)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,393 ratings — published 2018
Superman: Funeral for a Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as superman)
avg rating 3.54 — 748 ratings — published 1993
Superman: The Men of Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as superman)
avg rating 3.83 — 926 ratings — published 2015
Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as superman)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,220 ratings — published 2011
Batman/Superman: World's Finest, Vol. 1: The Devil Nezha (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as superman)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,266 ratings — published 2023
“Rage floods my guts, like the lava that swallowed the Redlands. I am the fury of billions. Cloaked in the red ashes of Krypton. The power of the sun exploding through my veins. My entire world died screaming, while I was helpless to stop it. But I'm not helpless anymore.”
― Absolute Superman (2024-) #5
― Absolute Superman (2024-) #5
“Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help.
Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises.
And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home.
It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure.
He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information.
[...]
Far from being invulnerable, Superman is the most vulnerable of beings, because his childhood was destroyed. He can never reintegrate himself by returning to that home- it is gone. It is gone and he is living among aliens to whom he cannot even reveal his rightful name.”
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Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises.
And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home.
It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure.
He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information.
[...]
Far from being invulnerable, Superman is the most vulnerable of beings, because his childhood was destroyed. He can never reintegrate himself by returning to that home- it is gone. It is gone and he is living among aliens to whom he cannot even reveal his rightful name.”
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