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Petter Myhr Ness
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Things used to take a little more time up here in the North, so this year marks the 30th anniversary since JB's MAN OF STEEL was published in Scandinavia. Not as a miniseries, but part of the regular monthly Superman comic. The first issue that year featured stories from MOS #1 and 2 (56 pages of story for about a buck).
I bought my copy fresh off the rack. It's one of my most read comic books.
I have to, once again, credit JB with how this was handled. There's been so many reboots over the last two decades, where the baby most definitely has been thrown out with the bathwater. JB's Superman, on the other hand, was easily recognisable even though things around him had changed. If you're absolutely going to do a reboot (and there's no reason to really), this is how to do it.
Thank you for 30 years of pleasurable reading, John!
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Warren Scott
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I wonder if the decision to print the Man of Steel miniseries under the Superman name was because more readers there would recognize the character by name than the Scandinavian translation of "Man of Steel."
Cool logo. The art seems similar to Byrne's if it is not his. Perhaps he can shed some light on that- were the covers for foreign editions of DC comics usually done by the original artists or artists in those countries?
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Petter Myhr Ness
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I believe the cover is a recolored version of this variant:
The Scandinavian covers were often recoloured or redone in other ways from the original version. Some times it worked, some times it didn't...
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Nathan Greno
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Why change the bottom left corner of the original? Trying to understand why someone would take the time to "fix" that?
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Eric Ladd
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Some tie enthusiast prthaps.
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Eric Jansen
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Is the whole thing re-drawn? (Or "re-inked" as I like to do sometimes for practice.) The Adam's apple is new and I see some other lines not on the original. If they didn't have access to the original art (likely), probably somebody just re-inked from the printed version, adding little things here and there.
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Ted Pugliese
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30 years... Doesn't it go by in a blink?
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That "Supermann" logo and the re-coloring and added bit of tie make the whole thing look like a badly done bootleg of the original. Then again, most of the foreign editions of this stuff look strange and done on the cheap.
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Just as a curiosity, here are the covers to the following issues, featuring the rest of the MOS miniseries. As you can see, #2 is clearly taken from MOS #4, while I have no idea where the cover from issue #3 came from. It resembles a panel from the interior art (issue 6, page 15), but that's about it.
If JB (or anyone else) could shed some light on it, it would be great.
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Peter Hicks
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It's been 30 years, and I still don't think we have seen Superman written or drawn better than what JB gave us back in the 80s. Thanks again John!
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And 30 years later, Luthor becomes president. ;-)
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