Superman: Exile!

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Writers: Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens, George Perez, Jerry Ordway

Artists: Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Kerry Gammill, George Perez, Mike Mignola, Curt Swan, Brett Breeding, Dennis Janke, John Statema

Collects: Superman issues 28-30, 32, 33, Adventures of Superman issues 451-456 and Action Comics issues 643 and Annual 2

Published by DC Comics.

Welcome to another chapter of Deciphering DC! After a lengthy gap comes the next collection in the monthly Superman series, made even more profound by the fact that the only Superman collection before this one, when it came out first, was the original Man of Steel collection....the other volumes were collected much, much later. There's a lot of catching up to be done from where we left off.

Superman: The World of Krypton

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Writers: John Byrne, E. Nelson Bridwell, Dennis O'Neil, Cary Bates, Marv Wolfman, Elliott S! Maggin, Paul Kupperberg, Martin Pasko, Bob Rozakis
Artists: Mike Mignola, Rick Bryant, John Byrne, Murphy Anderson, Dick Giordano, Gray Morrow, Dave Cockrum, Michael W Kaluta, Dick Dillin, Marshall Rogers and Gil Kane
Collects: The World of Krypton 1-4, part of Man of Steel issue 1 and back up features from Superman issues 233,236,238,240,248,257,266,375 and Superman Family issue 182
Publisher: DC Comics

Welcome to yet another edition of Deciphering DC. Today, after a long hiatus, we take a look at the continuing saga of Superman's early years (earlier looks at post COIE Superman can be found here and here).

Some time after Superman made a splash with the explosive Man of Steel miniseries, John Byrne wrote three more mini series, with different artists, each chronicling a part of the Superman mythos. The World of Krypton was the first of the three, with breakdowns by Mike Mignola and finishes by Rick Bryant.