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Continue reading →: SUPERMAN HOUSE ADS – 04-16-2026 – SUPERMAN SOURCEBOOK
While I have played the occasional role playing game over the years (mostly Vampire: The Masquerade back in the nineties) I never considered myself a big fan of them. It’s nothing personal. Just not my thing. I love that Dungeons and Dragons has become more mainstream in the past few…
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Continue reading →: WORLD’S FINEST WEDNESDAYS – 04-15-2026 – IT SHOULDN’T BE WEIRD (BUT IT PROBABLY ALWAYS WILL BE)
Nuance is weird sometimes. There are two statements that co-exist in my head. I love it when Superman and Batman are written as being the best of friends. It will always be at least a little weird to me when they are written that way. It shouldn’t be, but it…
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Continue reading →: MARVEL HOUSE AD – NEW UNIVERSE – 04-14-2026
I’m not seeing a whole lot of people wanting to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The New Universe. I remember the 20th anniversary being kind of a thing, but if there has been any kind of desire to mark the 40th I have yet to see it. I still need…
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Continue reading →: BATMAN HOUSE ADS – 04-13-2026 – BATMAN’S LACKLUSTER 50th BIRHTDAY
I have written and spoken in the past about the summer of 1989 and how important it was to me as not only a comic book fan but also a Batman fan and how it was the first time I regularly bought the Bat books. There were only two at…
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Continue reading →: SUNDAY WITH SPIDER-MAN – 04-12-2026 – SPIDER-MAN: MOVIE REFLECTIONS OF A SUPER HERO PART 2 – TRAILER PARK
In the previous installment I wrote about how the 2002 Spider-Man film got announced. This week I thought it would be fun to look at the various trailers for the movie and how the marketing for the film evolved over time. I thought I was going to spend a lot…
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Continue reading →: BLOODLINES TRADING CARDS – THE SUPERMAN CONNECTION – 04-11-2026
Saturday has become trading card day, so we’re going to roll with that for at least another week. Bloodlines was the crossover event that DC put out in 1993. Like the crossovers of 1991 and 1992 (with the exception of War of the Gods) DC used their annuals to tell…
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Continue reading →: THE OVERLOOKED DARK KNIGHT PRESENTS…BATMAN ’66 AT 60! PART 1 – BAT FLASHBACK – BATMAN: THE MOVIE COMMENTARY
Batman ’66 at 60! Part 1 – Bat Flashback – Batman: The Movie Commentary It is not hyperbole to say that without the 1966 Batman series starring Adam West and Burt Ward that this podcast wouldn’t be a thing. That series is foundational to both Andy and Mike in terms…
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Continue reading →: CAPTAIN AMERICA COMMENTARY – 04-08-2026 – TEASING CAPTAIN AMERICA
For those of you that aren’t aware, there was a live action Captain America movie that was supposed to come out in 1990 that only ended up with a limited release. You may have stumbled across a video essay or Reddit post about it. The film starred Matt Sallinger (son…
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Continue reading →: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ALFRED! – 04-05-2026
According to the 1976 DC Calendar, April 8th is the birthday of Batman’s gentleman’s gentleman and, for the last forty years, father figure Alfred Pennyworth! I love Alfred. I first met him via re-runs of the 1966 television series, so, to me, he’s been part of things from the start.…
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Continue reading →: HULK SMASH BAILEY PLANET – 04-07-2026 – ME AND THE HULK, THE HULK AND ME
Sometimes I wonder why I like the Hulk. Not the in a negative way. It’s not like I question my feelings for the character like some people question their feelings about someone in their life who is problematic. It’s not like Hulk and I have a toxic relationship, but I…
About Michael Bailey...
Husband. Pet dad to two mentally unstable poodles. Podcaster, but not the alpha-bro kind. Amateur Superman historian. Semi-Professional writer. Leap baby.
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The Bailey Planet is a lot of things. Part blog. Part journal. Part ramblings of a middle-aged man that is semi-retired as a comic book reader and collector. Part second home for the podcasts I host or co-host. Part archives for stuff I’ve scanned over the years. Part archives for anything related to Post Crisis Era of Superman.
It’s a lot of things.
Superman will make up a lot of the content, but you will be seeing Batman, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man content as well. To be honest, just about anything I like that’s related to comics and super-heroes is on the table.
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Hey Kids, Comics Podcast
Superman Homepage
The Fire and Water Podcast Network
Pop Culture Affidavit
Jon Reads Comics
Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
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KRAD’s Inaccurate Guide to Life
The ESO Network
The Flopcast
Good to be a Geek
The Monitor Tapes
Waiting For Doom
Digging for Kryptonite
All-Star Superfan Podcast
The Geek of Steel
Krypton Report
The House of El
Always Hold on to Smallville
Daily Planet
Geek Out Loud
And Why Not Podcast
Rolled Spine Podcasts
Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast
Supergirl: Comic Box Commentary
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