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Geek History Lesson

447: Superman The Dark Age 1985-2000

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Time to reveal the history and adventures of Superman in the Dark Age! Prepare for the Man of Steel to be completely rebooted from the his red boots to his spit curl! Afterwards, he will die, be reborn, grow long hair, and turn into an electric blue battery! The 1990's history of Superman is weird, and we're about to reveal it all!

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0:00.0

Actually, the quote unquote dark age of comics saw Superman get rebooted from scratch.

0:19.8

He died, he got married, and he got turned into an electric blue battery.

0:25.0

So instead of the dark times, this period for Superman could be considered a period of change.

0:32.3

And I would like to know from you, which of these changes do you think was the most shocking

0:39.4

or the most original?

0:41.9

Interesting.

0:42.9

I thought you were going to say the most important.

0:44.5

Well, I think we can save that till the end of the podcast.

0:47.1

But like, again, he went through a lot of changes from 1985 to 2000.

0:52.1

Probably more in this time period, Superman changed more in this 15 years than I think

0:57.4

in all the previous 60.

0:59.2

I think it'd be pretty hard at least at first blushed, not to credit electric Superman.

1:05.9

Electric Superman blue, the most startling.

1:10.0

Well, I kind of, I kind of, the most shocking, someone say.

1:13.8

Yes, I kind of, in cap say, Superman read in that as well, the most electrified as someone

1:19.1

say.

1:20.2

It's certainly the most different and the most out of left field.

1:23.5

It's the one people hate the most, but it's also iconic, and it is also beloved.

1:28.2

By the way, I, I, I own a lot of Superman blue action because you have to have at least

1:32.4

five or six.

1:33.4

Uh, I have, I have almost all of them that have, that exist.

1:36.6

I'm missing a couple of them, but I've almost have all of them that they've ever produced.

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