In the latest Superman Homepage Member Poll we asked you the following question:
Who is your favorite Superman comic book writer of all time?
Once best known as an artist, Dan Jurgens has come out on top as your all-time favorite Superman comic book writer, beating out John Byrn, Geoff Johns, and even Jerry Siegel.
Here’s the complete voting breakdown:
- Dan Jurgens 27%, 81 vote81 vote 27%81 vote - 27% of all votes
- John Byrne 16%, 48 votes48 votes 16%48 votes - 16% of all votes
- Geoff Johns 10%, 31 vote31 vote 10%31 vote - 10% of all votes
- All of them* 10%, 31 vote31 vote 10%31 vote - 10% of all votes
- Jerry Siegel 7%, 20 votes20 votes 7%20 votes - 7% of all votes
- Grant Morrison 4%, 12 votes12 votes 4%12 votes - 4% of all votes
- Elliot S! Maggin 4%, 11 votes11 votes 4%11 votes - 4% of all votes
- Roger Stern* 4%, 11 votes11 votes 4%11 votes - 4% of all votes
- Cary Bates* 3%, 10 votes10 votes 3%10 votes - 3% of all votes
- Jeph Loeb* 3%, 9 votes9 votes 3%9 votes - 3% of all votes
- Mark Waid 3%, 8 votes8 votes 3%8 votes - 3% of all votes
- Otto Binder 2%, 7 votes7 votes 2%7 votes - 2% of all votes
- Peter J. Tomasi* 2%, 7 votes7 votes 2%7 votes - 2% of all votes
- J. Michael Straczynski because of Superman: Earth One* 2%, 7 votes7 votes 2%7 votes - 2% of all votes
- Jack Kirby 1%, 3 votes3 votes 1%3 votes - 1% of all votes
- Joe Kelly* 1%, 2 votes2 votes 1%2 votes - 1% of all votes
- Brian Michael Bendis 0%, 1 vote1 vote1 vote - 0% of all votes
I’m just glad Maggin got this many votes considering that members on the site mostly prefer Post Crisis Superman material to Pre-Crisis. That being said I’m not the biggest fan of Jurgens as a Superman writer, I think he’s a better artist than than a writer