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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Older Books that You Should Read – Superfolks

Before comic writers in the 1980s re-imagined what superheroes would do, Robert Mayer laid the ideas at their feet. Superfolks was published in 1977 (brought back in print in 2005) and is an essential stopping point between Harvey Kurtzman’s Super Duper Man in the 1950s and the superheroes of the 1980s.
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