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So a long time ago (the mid-1990s), the greatest writer in comics agreed to take over the writing duties for Image Comics' Supreme. He would radically reshape the character, the book, and due to forces beyond his control, a whole comic book universe. And it led to an award-winning run of comics, three additional titles (among several proposed) and ultimately led to the genesis of Moore's much better known America's Best Comics. And then it all went out of print and was forgotten by way too many.

Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.

Each week I did a main "Weekly Reading" post that was a read-through of that issue. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.

Below is the archive of posts broken up by book. Thanks for checking the site out!

Book 1: Supreme: The Story of the Year

Book 1: Judgment Day

Book 3: Supreme: The Return

Book 4: Youngblood

Book 5: Glory

Book 6: After Awesome

Book 7: 1963

Book 8: Night Raven

Book 9: A Small Killing

Friday, July 21, 2017

Moore's earliest Superman stories - Part 2

As I mentioned earlier, there aren't a lot of offshoots from the Weekly Reading of Supreme #45, so I'm presenting two early Alan Moore Superman stories, instead. Before he started working for DC Comics in the U.S., Moore worked on two Superman stories for Fleetway. Fleetway reprinted U.S. material with the occasional original piece tossed in. Mostly, these were put together as hardcover annuals, with mazes and word games.

You've already seen his 1984 piece, "Protected Species." In 1985, he contributed his second, "I Was Superman's Double!" with illustrations by Bob Wakelin.

 




Both stories show Moore in a playful mood. These are the kinds of Superman stories that he aimed to return to telling with Supreme.
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2 comments:

  1. Daniel Ratcliffe August 13, 2026 at 5:51 AM

    "Moore worked on two Superman stories for the small outfit of DC UK. DC UK, like Marvel UK, were run as separate companies, reprinting U.S. material with the occasional original piece tossed in."

    Where did you read this? These annuals were published by Fleetway, there was no such entity as DC UK.

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    1. MikeAugust 31, 2026 at 11:48 AM

      Most likely it was my own error. I knew it was a separate company from the U.S. DC Comics but assumed that it was published by a DC entity in the U.K.

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