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. But mostly it's going to be about Superman. Because Mike...
Latest episodes
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1 h 43
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 47 - Man of Steel at 40 Part 2: The BBC Adventures of Superman
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 o…
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2 h 02
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 46 - Man of Steel at 40 Part 1: 10 Things I Love/Hate About Man of Steel
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 o…
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60 min
Episode 107 - Meet The New Batgirl...Twice
This time out Andy and Mike talk about the main story from Detective Comics #359, which is the first appearance of the Barbara Gordon version of Batgirl. Now, some of you might be…
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2 h 07
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 45 - Luthor and the Amazing Tri-Colored Power Armor
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. T…
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1 h 39
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 44 - The Modern Superman/Spider-Man Crossovers
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…
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1 h 10
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 43 - The Superman Wars - An Interview with William Bernhardt
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 newes…
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1 h 46
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 42 - Marvel Treasury Edition #28 Featuring Superman and Spider-Man
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 heralde…
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1 h 48
It All Comes Back to Superman Superman Day 2026 Special - Superman on the Ones!
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…
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1 h 54
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 41 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 24 - Superman (2025)
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. A…
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1 h 08
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 40 - A Conversation With Mark Waid
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 tal…
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1 h 32
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 39 - Many Lives, Many Origins Installment 2 - Superman: Birthright Part…
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…
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1 h 04
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 38 - Many Lives, Many Origins Installment 1 - Superman: Birthright Part…
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 B…
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1 h 28
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 37 - The Battle of the Century! Superman vs The Amazing Spider-Man
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 a…
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1 h 15
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 36 - Mike's Year In Superman (2025 Edition)
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 b…
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2 h 21
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 35 - The Superman Family in Crisis
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…
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1 h 37
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 34 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 23 - Superman: The Man of Tomorrow
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 Advent…
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1 h 40
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 33 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 22 - Superman: Red Son
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…
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1 h 47
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 32 - Moving Kryptonian Images Part 21 - Reign of the Supermen
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…
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56 min
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 31 - Moving Kryptonian Images Interlude - Superman (2025) First and Seco…
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 Adven…
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1 h 17
It All Comes Back to Superman Episode 30 - Adapting All-Star Superman: A Conversation with Meghan Fitzmartin
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 conver…