Superman Through the Ages! Forum

Howdy,

January 2005 marks the ten year anniversary of this site, which I started back in January of 1995.

Here's a page (http://superman.nu/X/) I put together as a sort of anniversary retrospective/history/thanks thing.

I started this thread in the forum so that if anyone has memories, reminisces, comments, complaints, thanks, suggestions, or questions of their own re the anniversary, they can post them here.

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic first decade!

:s:

Here's to at least ten more! :s:

I found this site back in the late 1990's and it like a fine wine truly does improve with age.  There are many good comic book/character/creator sites on the web but non of them truly compare to this one.  So congraulations on the first ten years and I'll be back in 10 more years to congraulate you again.

Congratulations from Richard SamuEL SiegeEL ( a double EL LL from the House of El)

Crap! I just blew my secret identity! :shock:

One of my fave sites where I can get my Silver Age super family fix on.

Great Elvis' Shade - I think not. GREAT RAO!

Thanks for a great site.

Gonna be Five Oh in Oh Five which makes me an offical Silver Ager myself. And Im still following the Adventures of Superman...up, up and awaaaaaaaaaay!!!! :s:

Im so happy to have found this site! This place has rekindled my love for SUPERMAN thank you all.

Congratulations on the ten years, Rao!

And thanks for running a great site! When I stumbled across this site three (or was it four?) years ago, I was astounded by the wealth of information. And the opportunity to read comics I'd never seen before was fantastic. And the new stories by Samuel Hawkins and Elliot S! Maggin. And Project S! (what a blast!). And, of course, there is the forum. Lots of fun talking and reminiscing with all of you.

Keep up the good work, Rao!

Here's to the best Superman site on the internet.
Thanks Rao! :D

Congratulations, Great Rao!  And may I also take this opportunity to thank you for posting no fewer than NINE classic Superman stories during the past month, plus one already in 2005!  This site has become one of my favorite spots on the Internet, and my best wishes for the New Year go to you and all who make this "Fortress of Solitude" such an inviting and hospitable place.

Congratulations and Happy New Year!

This site is one of those things that makes the internet (and many aspects of the modern world) bearable!

Yes.  This site has brought back the joy of seeing the big red S.  When I get a new job, I'm going after the silver age Superfamily stories(Supergirl Arvice, Auperman in Action Comics archive)

I do enjoy this.

If my scanner worked, I'd send in the story where Lois Lane was using Lana's bio-ring.  And also puts a lie to why Superman didn't want to marry either Lana or Lois.  :)

Serious congrats...

The site not only brings back my memories, but is a good blend of other perspectives, while keeping a Golden/Silver tone...

Great work...

Well, what can I say?  It's hard to overstate the delight I felt at finding someone...anyone...else in the world who remembered "my" Superman and felt he was worth remembering...even celebrating.  For years it seemed I'd be the only one of my peers never to "grow out of" comics...girls didn't take me away, nor college, nor career.  In the end, comics "outgrew" me, becoming something too jaded, too cynical, too perverse, too insidiously soul-robbing (or as the publishers would put it, too "adult") for me to support.  I missed -- continue to miss -- my hero Superman and was beginning to feel, in those days, that I was the only one who did.

It was a vindication to find someone, then several someones, then a lot of someones who also remembered the good old days, despite DC's party line that they never happened.  And to find them at a site that wasn't afraid to tell the truth; that a hero with clean hands is not an impossibility, that truth and justice and a respect for life are not naive notions or "weaknesses," and that making stories fit for children of all ages should be a source of pride, not shame.  

Rao is quite right that it's hard to imagine what a voice in the wilderness this site was in 1995.  Indeed, putting it up was practically an act of protest, with all the risk that involves in this litigation-happy nation of ours.  I distinctly remember two thoughts when I found the site: first, "This is great!" and then, "Can he really DO this?"

Thanks, Rao, for keeping the faith in the darkest times and for striking the first blows against the solid wall of resistance from DC.  Bit by bit, from a million different sides, it's been chipped and chipped at until now it's not a question of if it will fall, but when.  You've done a hero's work.

Here's to another ten years!