Not to undermine your point (Superman's inherant arrogance kept me out of superhero comics as a genre for a long, long time) but I can't help noticing that 80% of your exhibits come from external Superman continuity rather than from Action or Superman titles themselves...
oh, believe me, i would never attempt such a denial. especially after reading Our Worlds At War and Batman: The Dark Night Returns (which is, in my opinion, the best of the books in which Supes attempts to kill the caped crusader). but most of the external contiuities are written from the title character's perspective, which subtly influences how Superman himself is presented.
Man, talk about the "silver" age of comics. Fortunately, Superman is a little more upstanding these days. If I were you, Shan, I would get one of three things to think twice about the way Superman is:
1) Action Comics #750: Taking on "heroes" who kill. 2) Superman For All Seasons 3) Superman: Secret Identity
Of course, this is speaking as one of the biggest Superman fans around, so I could bias. :)
As far as I can figure, in the silver age, Superman spent more time pranking Jimmy Olsen (and being pranked in return) than he did fighting crime. What a dick!
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Date: 2004-11-22 08:26 pm (UTC)From:This is not an unusual sort of utterance to be heard in a comic shop, but I felt obliged to ask him why.
"Because he's not Celtic" (pronounced SELL-tic).
Soon afterwards, this guy launched into how he knew Merlin (who is SELL-tic), and that he liked my boots.
He was very creepy.
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Date: 2004-11-22 08:28 pm (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2004-11-22 08:04 pm (UTC)From:1) Action Comics #750: Taking on "heroes" who kill.
2) Superman For All Seasons
3) Superman: Secret Identity
Of course, this is speaking as one of the biggest Superman fans around, so I could bias. :)
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Date: 2004-11-23 05:19 am (UTC)From:What's the point of them? o_O Why would they make him so nasty?
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Date: 2004-11-23 02:11 pm (UTC)From:Now i need to go poop!
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Date: 2004-11-24 01:16 pm (UTC)From:Batman worked for every thing he has. Superman just fell from the stars and that made him well, super.
Ok. I'm such a geek.
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Date: 2004-11-24 08:36 pm (UTC)From:I hope you don't mind me adding you to my friends list.
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Date: 2004-11-24 08:45 pm (UTC)From:I have lots more Superman abuse to come....
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