{"id":387,"date":"2010-05-19T10:11:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-05-19T10:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T17:11:41","slug":"glow-in-the-dark-comics-4-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/glow-in-the-dark-comics-4-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Glow in the Dark Comics #4 Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">During the speculator boom in the 1990s comic book market, publishers enhanced comic covers to increase sales. These gimmicks included shiny foil, holograms and even pop-ups! But, one of the coolest enhancements was the glow in the dark cover. Let&#8217;s shed some light on the subject, shall we?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/superman-v2-123.gif\" alt=\"Superman vol. II #123\" align=\"left\" \/><b><u>Publisher<\/u><\/b>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics_DC-Comics_W0QQ_fsubZ19879009QQ_sidZ13296653QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322\">DC Comics<\/a><br \/><b><u>Cover Date<\/u><\/b>: May 1997<br \/><b><u>Cover Price<\/u><\/b>: $1.95<br \/><b><u>Cover Artist<\/u><\/b>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catskillcomics.com\/frenz.htm\">Ron Frenz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 1990s, <strong>DC Comics <\/strong>put <strong>Superman <\/strong>through some interesting developments. They killed him off, replaced him with four different stand-ins, brought him back, married him off &#8230; and gave him a new look with all-new powers. To celebrate this move to make Superman &#8220;ready for the next century&#8221;, they published the new look&#8217;s debut with a glow-enhanced cover. Watch out, though! There&#8217;s a newstand variant of this with a different cover that doesn&#8217;t glow. But &#8230; it had the same cover price! Doesn&#8217;t seem right to me, folks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">On Ebay<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22superman%22&amp;submit=Search&amp;LH_TitleDesc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the speculator boom in the 1990s comic book market, publishers enhanced comic covers to increase sales. These gimmicks included shiny foil, holograms and even pop-ups! But, one of the coolest enhancements was the glow in the dark cover. Let&#8217;s shed some light on the subject, shall we? Publisher: DC ComicsCover Date: May 1997Cover Price: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glow-in-the-dark-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}