Superman Week: Book #5

Superman: Miracle Monday is an out-of-print book by Elliot S! Maggin that was released by DC Comics to coincide with Superman II. The book is set in the DC Universe of the 1970s: Clark is a TV Reporter and Lex Luthor is a mad scientist. In Miracle Monday, Superman is forced to deal with Lex Luthor, a demon from Hell and a time traveling history student. And this time, he might have more than even Superman can handle

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Superman Week: Honorable Mentions

I was noticing that there are very few books starring superheroes that are actually good. Generally when a superhero text novel is published, it’s a good bet that it’s going to be bad (and yes I’m looking at you Kevin J Anderson). But the ones that are good mainly happen to be Superman related books. There have been Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, Iron Man and countless other novels and most of them aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. But Superman has made his mark in the novel world. To celebrate that I’m going to go over my top 5 Superman books. I’m including a couple comic ones also, since they’re too go to be ignored. Today we’ll start with the Honorable Mentions:

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