SUPERMAN: THE AMERICAN WAY A Verse Narrative 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" 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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