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The Bailey Planet Podcast

The Bailey Planet Podcast (the show formerly known as It All Comes Back to Superman) is the official podcast for The Bailey Planet website. It is also the main show for host Michael Bailey to talk about comics. Mainly he"ll be talking about Superman, but other subjects will pop up from time to time. So Batman, Green Lantern, the Flash, the Hulk...all of these and more are eventually going to be on the table. There will be features, exposes, breaking news, media reviews, and all kinds of fun stuff.

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02:02:33

It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 46 - Man of...

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2026/10/03

40 years ago this year John Byrne revamped Superman with a mini-series titled Man of Steel. This six issue mini-series is not only one of the most important events in the history of Superman, but was the foundation of what became "my era" of Superman and was, for the longest time, my favorite origin for the character. Because of all of that I thought it would be fun to do a short, three episode series celebrating the anniversary of Man of Steel's release. I'm calling it Man of Steel at 40. Which

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02:07:10

It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 45 - Luthor and...

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2026/09/25

The road to the end of It All Comes Back to Superman continues with a conversation about...fashion. Back in 1983, the Powers That Be decided to revamp two of Superman's bad guys. They had creators pitch their ideas and finally landed on Marv Wolfman's new take on Brainiac (with a new robotic look by Ed Hannigan) and Cary Bates' ideas on how to take Lex Luthor to the next level, which involved a new suit of George Perez designed armor. And it's the Lex part of this revamp that will serve as the

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01:39:32

It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 44 - The Modern...

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2026/09/18

The road to the end of It All Comes Back to Superman starts here! The show is wrapping up with episode 50, but there is so much fun to have until then and this episode is a lot of fun. Andrew Leyland (of Hey Kids Comics and The Amazing Spider-Man from the Beginning) joins me to finish out our talks about the various times Superman and Spider-Man team-up to discuss the two recent specials that Marvel and DC published. It was originally going to be two episodes, but given our commentary it was better

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01:10:07

Episode 43 - The Superman Wars - An Interview with...

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2026/06/13

This time out I sit down with writer William Bernhardt, author of The Daniel Pike Series, The Splitsville Legal Thriller Series, and the Ben Kincaid novels, to talk about his newest book The Superman Wars: A Battle for Truth, Justice, and an American Icon. The official description of the book is... Up in the sky! Look! It's Superman! Almost everyone knows about the man from Krypton who, disguised as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent working with the fearless Lois Lane, fights for the vulnerable

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01:46:19

Episode 42 - Marvel Treasury Edition #28 Featuring...

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2026/05/16

This time out Andrew Leyland joins me once again to talk about a team-up between Superman and Spider-Man. Marvel Treasury Edition #28 came out in April of 1981 and not only heralded the return of the Marvel/DC team-ups but once again had Superman and Spider-Man teaming up as well. This time they join forces against Doctor Doom in a plot that could be described as the title of an album from the English rock band Slade. (In case you're curious, that album was called Keep Your Hands Off My Power

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01:48:05

Superman Day 2026 Special - Superman on the Ones!

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2026/04/18

Another year, another Superman Day, another Superman Day Special! This year I decided to finally pull the trigger on an idea I've had for some time now and even planned to do last year but since I tend to be a work sky fop I never got around to it. It happens. A lot. I'm working on it. Anyway, Superman has had a number of series over the years. Because of that he has had a lot of number one issues. I thought it would be fun to look through the ones for his various ongoing series and talk about

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01:54:32

Episode 41 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 24 -...

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2026/03/04

Moving Kryptonian Images reaches its penultimate chapter...finally. Yes. I know. It's been a minute. I feel a bit bad about that, but life got weird towards the end of last year. Anyway, I finally get to the film that inspired this series in the first place. Superman, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor, came out last July and, by just about every metric, was a success. In terms of meeting box

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01:08:57

Episode 40 - A Conversation With Mark Waid

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2026/02/25

This time out I finish my look at Superman: Birthright by having a conversation with the man who wrote it! That's right, I got the chance to sit down (so to speak) with Mark to talk about Birthright. We talked about other things as well, but most of the conversation was about that series. We go over why DC wanted a new origin in 2003, why Mark kept the Kents alive despite his personal feelings on their deaths in previous versions of the origin, why Clark and Lex were friends during their time in

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01:32:49

Episode 39 - Many Lives, Many Origins Installment 2 -...

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2026/02/18

Many Lives, Many Origins, the series exploring the various versions of Superman's origin that I'll be doing off and on throughout 2026, continues with the second part of my look at Superman: Birthright. Which, as I said during the last episode, is my favorite version of Superman's origin. Full stop. After a bit of housecleaning where I talk about the promo poster that was released to promote this series (which I really should have done last time but didn't) I get into issues six through twelve

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01:04:47

Episode 38 - Many Lives, Many Origins Installment 1 -...

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2026/02/10

This time out I'm starting a new series that will run irregularly through 2026 called Many Lives, Many Origins. Superman has one of the best origins in comics. It's up there with Batman and Spider-Man as having a backstory that is timeless and just about perfect. Rocketed as a baby when his home world exploded, found by a kindly couple and raised as their son, Superman discovered that he possessed powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men and decided to use those powers to help mankind

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01:28:25

Episode 37 - The Battle of the Century! Superman vs...

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2026/01/26

Fifty years ago Marvel and DC teamed up to bring their, at the time, flagship characters together. Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man was a tabloid sized comic that saw Superman and Spider-Man not only fighting each other, but also taking on the titanic team-up of Lex Luthor and Doctor Octopus. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this book and to, down the road, ride the coat tails of the new version of Superman and Spider-Man teaming up I did a team-up of my own. Joining me to talk about this

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01:15:31

Episode 36 - Mike's Year In Superman (2025 Edition)

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2026/01/12

It's a new year, so I'm going to start things like I did last year...by looking back at the previous year. It's worked pretty well for the past few years and I actually put out a bunch of shows in 2025 and a certain film came out, so there's actually stuff to talk about, which, as you can imagine, makes putting out this episode a lot easier. Anyway, in this off the cuff, unscripted, and increasing congested episode I talk about watching the final few episodes of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures

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02:21:09

Episode 35 - The Superman Family in Crisis

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2025/12/16

Forty years ago DC Comics published Crisis on Infinite Earths. That twelve issue series (plus a handful of crossover issues) was part celebration of DC's fiftieth birthday and part house cleaning. Worlds lived, worlds died and the DC Universe was never the same. To celebrate what was, at one point, a holy text to my generation of comic book fans I thought it would be fun to look at what the Superman family was up to during the story. Joining me on this journey is three time Eisner award winning

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01:37:32

Episode 34 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 23 -...

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2025/08/11

Welcome to a "starting a new universe is what the cool kids are doing" installment of the podcasting maxiseries called Moving Kryptonian Images: The Live Action and Animated Adventures of Superman! The purpose of this series is to celebrate the release of the new Superman film, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor! This time out I am joined by award winning author Keith R.A. DeCandido

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01:40:30

Episode 33 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 22 -...

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2025/07/28

Welcome to a "down with the bourgeoisie, up with the proletariat" installment of the podcasting maxiseries called Moving Kryptonian Images: The Live Action and Animated Adventures of Superman! The purpose of this series is to celebrate the release of the new Superman film, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor! Greetings, comrade, and welcome to a podcast for the common man. This time

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01:47:46

Episode 32 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 21 - Reign...

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2025/07/21

Welcome to an "it's reigning men" filled installment of the podcasting maxiseries called Moving Kryptonian Images: The Live Action and Animated Adventures of Superman! The purpose of this series is to celebrate the release of the new Superman film, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor! This time out I am talking about the 2020 film Reign of the Supermen, which is the adaptation of the

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Episode 31 - Moving Kryptonian Images Interlude -...

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2025/07/14

Welcome to a very special, off the cuff, and completely spoiler filled installment of the podcasting maxi-series called Moving Kryptonian Images: The Live Action and Animated Adventures of Superman! The purpose of this series is to celebrate the release of the new Superman film, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor! This time out I am solo to discuss my first (and second) impressions of

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01:17:43

Episode 30 - Adapting All-Star Superman: A...

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2025/07/07

Another week, another tangent from Moving Kryptonian Images. This should be the last one. Promise. Anyway, in a weird way this episode could be considered an addendum to the conversation I had with Russ Burlingame about All-Star Superman. In the time between that episode and this one, another adaptation of that story has been released. On June 24, 2025 Penguin Random House put out an audiobook version of All-Star Superman with a cast that includes Marc Thompson, Kristen Sieh, Christopher

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02:12:18

Episode 29 - The Fantastic Four Connection

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2025/06/30

For various reasons, the next installment of Moving Kryptonian Images has been delayed. But...that doesn't mean that I don't have a new episode of the show to release. Because I care. Recently I sat down with Andrew Leyland (you know, my co-host on The Overlooked Dark Knight and the co-host of Hey Kids Comics and the host of The Amazing Spider-Man From The Beginning) and we talked about three times where Superman, either directly or indirectly, crossed paths with The Fantastic Four. Why? Because the

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02:57:25

Episode 28 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 20 - The...

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2025/06/23

Welcome to a very special installment of the podcasting maxi-series called Moving Kryptonian Images: The Live Action and Animated Adventures of Superman! The purpose of this series is to celebrate the release of the new Superman film, written and directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor! In 2018, the most famous (or, as some would say, infamous) Superman story of all time got a second chance at an

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