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       A Verse Narrative by Michael E. Mautner

Superman: The American Way
Part One: HEARTLANDERS

Table of Contents

INVOCATION
  Canto 1
PROLOGUE: THREE FATHERS
  Canto 2 ... ...Farmer Man
  Canto 3 ... ...Noble Man
  Canto 4 ... ...& A Science-Chief
BOOK ONE: ARRIVAL
  Canto 5
  Canto 6
  Canto 7
  Canto 8
  Canto 9
BOOK TWO: OLD GODS LIE
  Canto 10
  Canto 11
  Canto 12
  Canto 13
  Canto 14
  Canto 15
  Canto 16
  Canto 17
  Canto 18
  Canto 19
  Canto 20
  Canto 21
FIRST INTERLUDE: MALEFACTORS
  Canto 22 ... ...Of Great Wealth
  Canto 23 ... ...And Of a Steel But Slimy Stealth
BOOK THREE: KANSAS BLEEDS
  Canto 24
  Canto 25
  Canto 26
  Canto 27
  Canto 28
  Canto 29
  Canto 30
BOOK FOUR: AND OLD WORLDS DIE
  Canto 31
  Canto 32
  Canto 33
  Canto 34
  Canto 35
BOOK FIVE: NOT THE LAST OF THE KNIGHT-RIDES
  Canto 36
  Canto 37
  Canto 38
  Canto 39
  Canto 40
  Canto 41
  Canto 42
  Canto 43
  Canto 44
  Canto 45
  Canto 46
SECOND INTERLUDE
  Canto 47 ... ...Star-Crossed Tourists prepare to Exit an Absurd Universe
  Canto 48 ... ...Young Lex Arrives in the Great State of Kansas
BOOK SIX: SURVIVAL
  Canto 49 ... ...Smallville Agonistes, Superman Unbound
  Canto 50
  Canto 51
  Canto 52
  Canto 53
  Canto 54
  Canto 55
  Canto 56
  Canto 57
  Canto 58
  Canto 59
  Canto 60
  Canto 61
EPILOGUE: TOWARD METROPOLIS
  Canto 62 ... Several Grand Entrances
  Canto 63 ... Secret-Origin of a Super-Villain
  Canto 64 ... The Path
 
APPENDICES
 
Appendix I - FROM THE PIT TO THE PEAK
              "Superman" and The Ascension of America
 
Appendix II - THE HOUSE OF EL AND ITS LEGACY
              The unfinished "SUPERCLAN FAMILY TREE"

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words & story © 1994 by Michael E. Mautner
<k.l.mautner@att.net>

Second Complete Revised Draft
5/87 - 7/94

From material originally conceived by Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, et. al.


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