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Elliot S! Maggin reads his books. Starting with Miracle Monday, his 1981 bestselling novel that was released with the film Superman II, and with occasional guests, he reads sequential portions of each book until the story is done. Then he reads another one.
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An introductory bonus episode. Elliot reads a little chunk of Miracle Monday and talks about what's to come.
Elliot reads the beginning of Superman: Mirtacle Monday. The Journal, Thanksgiving and Graduation.
Chapter three of Superman: Miracle Monday wherein we meet C.W. Saturn the agent of Hell on Earth, and Kristin Wells, a history graduate student from the 29th century who is in training to travel to Metropolis in the days of Superman.
Superman saves Metropolis from a tidal wave and Luthor holds a press conference from a maximum security cell to announce his imminent escape. And Elliot talks to his pal Tommy.
Clark and Lois try to set up Kristin with Jimmy Olsen but she runs off with Steve Lombard because she's impressed with his chest hair. And Lex Luthor walks through a wall.
No let me show you how to write action ...
Superman gets a warning from Max Maven the mentalist at the Magic Castle that matters are about to get dire. In the calm before the conflagration Superman and Lois go out to dinner.
The earliest origins of Lexcorp. Luthor contrives to buy a large piece of futuristic machinery disguised as artwork that he created and planted for safekeeping in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art.
A demon from Hell makes a deal to get a valuable token from Luthor and Superman has just too much to do.
The demon takes full possession of Kristin, the Itching Sickness breaks out all over the world, Saturn unleashes scads of disasters and assaults a newsroom full of pundits, including Clark Kent, in a television studio. We really leave our hero hanging out to dry this time.
With the death of Clark Kent, Superman feels lost. And we spend a few moments talking about another kind of spiritual loss as well.
In the wake of the death of Clark Kent and encroachbing chaos on Earth authored by a demon in possession of the body of the innocent Kristin Wells, the world considers the fate of the planet and that of Kristin herself.
Big fight: Superman versus the devil.
The thirteenth and final installment of Superman: Miracle Monday. Reckonings, conclusions and one estimable miracle.
Beginning Elliot's classic superhero novel, Last Son of Krypton. A planet blows apart, a space probe lands on a window sill in New Jersey and a prophesy ancient beyond time presages inevitable doom.
The story moves from ancient Smallville to Eighties Metropolis. We meet the adult Clark Kent and Lois Lane and speculate on the nature of their relationship.
Lex Luthor steals the last bequest to the world of Professor Albert Einstein by distracting Superman with a platoon of hang-gliders intent on plundering downtown Metropolis.
On a faraway world, the mercantile center of countless civilizations for hundreds of light-years around, a wealthy slavemaster plots to build an interstellar real estate empire. And on Earth, Superman agonizes over Luthor's having gotten the best of him in a petty theft. There's more.
Luthor struggles with a succession of employees trying to get the stolen Einstein document translated, and Superman deals with the return of Towbee the space minstrel to Metropolis. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Last Son of Krypton.
A master thief gets ripped off and has to go to his arch enemy for help, and we learn more about Luthor and Superman's past. And Elliot talks about a threatening phone call that came about as a result of this book's original publication. Chapters fifteen and sixteen of Last Son of Krypton: The Caper and The Contact.
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This is fantastic. The absolute peak of Bronze Age Superman in two completely original stories by the best Superman writer of all time. Thank you Mr. Maggin.