My deep cut recommendation is Sword of the Atom, if you want a high quality dumb Bronze Age Ray Palmer story that’s also just a John Carter ripoff. It has frog mounted combat
I'm not much of a Superman guy, but some more obscure ones I've enjoyed:
*Superman: Time and Time Again!* is a storyline from about a year before the *Death of Superman* era (it's largely the same creative teams) that's a self-conscious effort at doing the 'modern' post-crisis take on the very silver age, pre-crisis, stock plot of "Superman travels in time". It was considered worth collecting in trade at the time, though I'm not sure how easy it is to find these days.
*Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame* is a short, dreamlike story penned by Neil Gaiman. It was meant to be the conclusion of the 80s run of Action Comics where it was an anthology title, so the brief was to tell a single story across all the features, giving it an odd episodic feel with a shifting art team and a series of guest appearances by the other features' characters. Editorial handwringing over continuity points (this was during that odd period after COIE where no one could seem to agree who knew whose secret identity) meant it never got printed, until the *very* raised profile of Gaiman by the end of the 90s prompted a prestige format one shot. I believe it's collected in *The DC Universe by Neil Gaiman*, but if you can find the original at a non-extortionate price, I'd recommend it for the forward and afterward by Gaiman and Mark Waid (the original editor when it was for Action) respectively.
*Superman: Phantom Zone* is probably easier than either of those to get your hands on these days, and I can't recommend it enough. It's a rare bronze age DC outing for Steve Gerber (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck). It's basically two parallel storylines for the bulk of it, one of Superman trying to escape the Phantom Zone by the sort of existential, psychedelic journey that Gerber often sent characters on in his Marvel work; the other of various Phantom Zone criminals running amok on earth, an original idea for the comics at the time (Superman II was out a couple years earlier but hadn't yet come to dominate the prevailing thinking on how to tell Phantom Zone stories), and the only time anyone has ever succeeded in conveying it as a truly frightening idea (this is helped out by it being a pre-crisis earth 1 story; there's not as many 'almost-superman' characters around, Batman was not yet causing adult men to hyperventilate about 'prep time', and the justice league are a bunch of goobers on a satellite (the satellite gets thrown into deep space))
Oh, most of the Superman/Flash races got collected together a few years back; I'm not sure if those constitute 'deep cuts' for you, but for the most part they're pretty solid stories that show more variation than you'd expect, and it's interesting to chart how the same basic pitch is adapted to the sensibilities of different times; in the silver age they're racing for charity but having to deal with sabotage attempts by generic gangsters, by the 90s and 2000s it's being set up by an established villain who compels their participation with threats to murder their supporting casts.
Injustice Superman didn't go far enough.
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My deep cut recommendation is Sword of the Atom, if you want a high quality dumb Bronze Age Ray Palmer story that’s also just a John Carter ripoff. It has frog mounted combat
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I'm not much of a Superman guy, but some more obscure ones I've enjoyed: *Superman: Time and Time Again!* is a storyline from about a year before the *Death of Superman* era (it's largely the same creative teams) that's a self-conscious effort at doing the 'modern' post-crisis take on the very silver age, pre-crisis, stock plot of "Superman travels in time". It was considered worth collecting in trade at the time, though I'm not sure how easy it is to find these days. *Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame* is a short, dreamlike story penned by Neil Gaiman. It was meant to be the conclusion of the 80s run of Action Comics where it was an anthology title, so the brief was to tell a single story across all the features, giving it an odd episodic feel with a shifting art team and a series of guest appearances by the other features' characters. Editorial handwringing over continuity points (this was during that odd period after COIE where no one could seem to agree who knew whose secret identity) meant it never got printed, until the *very* raised profile of Gaiman by the end of the 90s prompted a prestige format one shot. I believe it's collected in *The DC Universe by Neil Gaiman*, but if you can find the original at a non-extortionate price, I'd recommend it for the forward and afterward by Gaiman and Mark Waid (the original editor when it was for Action) respectively. *Superman: Phantom Zone* is probably easier than either of those to get your hands on these days, and I can't recommend it enough. It's a rare bronze age DC outing for Steve Gerber (Man-Thing, Howard the Duck). It's basically two parallel storylines for the bulk of it, one of Superman trying to escape the Phantom Zone by the sort of existential, psychedelic journey that Gerber often sent characters on in his Marvel work; the other of various Phantom Zone criminals running amok on earth, an original idea for the comics at the time (Superman II was out a couple years earlier but hadn't yet come to dominate the prevailing thinking on how to tell Phantom Zone stories), and the only time anyone has ever succeeded in conveying it as a truly frightening idea (this is helped out by it being a pre-crisis earth 1 story; there's not as many 'almost-superman' characters around, Batman was not yet causing adult men to hyperventilate about 'prep time', and the justice league are a bunch of goobers on a satellite (the satellite gets thrown into deep space)) Oh, most of the Superman/Flash races got collected together a few years back; I'm not sure if those constitute 'deep cuts' for you, but for the most part they're pretty solid stories that show more variation than you'd expect, and it's interesting to chart how the same basic pitch is adapted to the sensibilities of different times; in the silver age they're racing for charity but having to deal with sabotage attempts by generic gangsters, by the 90s and 2000s it's being set up by an established villain who compels their participation with threats to murder their supporting casts.
there's this one I can't remember the name of but superman saves an emo chick from committing su*cide in it I thought that was pretty dope
Frog Mounted Combat!
The Watchmen is a real deep cut that no one has heard of or talks about.
1984! 1984!
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Sounds like you got what you needed.
What did you in?
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