This is Dr.Death Defying, Signing Off

On Monday, 18 April 1938, the landmark issue of Action Comics #1 appeared on newsstands in the USA with a cover date of June 1938. The legendary cover marked the first appearance of the iconic Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Some doodles I did on the side while drawing prints for Comifuro! Revamped the Monster AU to give them some variety lol

About 10 years later, you tune into a news stream to catch some news about the Clone War. The announcer is talking about a particularly pivotal battle, saying something about “Jedi General Anakin Skywalker”

hello!! today i present: an introductory lil powerpoint for those of you who may have seen '90s kon floating around, maybe heard a few things about him via dash osmosis, etc., but don't really know his deal, or why he's so different vibes-wise from t-shirt kon.

(the answer to that one is that t-shirt kon is the 2003 retcon i referred to in slide 6; in some ways he's an entirely different character before that!)

*note: i did kinda simplify the "is kon a metahuman clone or a kryptonian" thing. his early comics kinda contradict each other on this! for example, he's not depowered by the lack of sun during final night, but later after sins of youth it takes sunlight to charge him back up, etc.

some resources for getting into his comics:

a reading order for "reign of the supermen"

a general set of catch-all warnings for superboy '94

a detailed list of tie-ins and crossovers with sb94, with warnings for each (made by @radioactive-earthshine <3)

a list of his postcrisis era appearances, categorized by major and minor (note: this does leave out superman '87 #155, which is one of my favorite issues. it's set before superboy "hypertension" arc!)

a list of every single issue he's appeared in, including very minor appearances and cameos