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Elliot Makes Stuff Up

by Elliot S! Maggin writer of novels, comics, journalism and film

Elliot S! Maggin reads his books. Starting with Miracle Monday, his 1981 bestselling novel that was released with the film Superman II, and with occasional guests, he reads sequential portions of each book until the story is done. Then he reads another one.

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  1. Lexcorp Chap 23-24 And You Can't Come Legacy

    Up, up and away ...

  2. Lexcorp Chap 22 We're Leaving the Planet

    We are, in fact, leaving the planet - with about 800 of our closest friends.

  3. Lexcorp Chap 21 Black Sea Palace

    Lex, Eve and the Alloy Guy go on a field trip.

  4. Lexcorp Chap 20 The Amazon

    Lex distributes his super-pollinator colonies all up and down the Western Hemisphere.

  5. Lexcorp Chap 19 The Penn State Lion

    Lexreturns from the Canary Islands with his hot-for-revenge new girlfriend.

  6. Lexcorp Chap 17-18 She Called First Date

    You know all about first dates, right? Well ... not like this one.

  7. Lexcorp Chap 15-16 Eve - Chickenshits in Paris

    Lex meets his fantasy girl and takes a junket to the City of Lights.

  8. Lexcorp Chap 14 Folded Over

    So Lex gets in the mother of all snits and goes off to find himself a few lightyears away from home.

  9. Lexcorp Chap 13 Planning the Plan

    Lex outlines his plan to swave the world, then gets pissed off with humanity in general anyway.

  10. Lexcorp Chap 11 - 12 Alloy Guy 3DTV

    Lex and his doctor pal build a cyborg and Lex patents a common human function.

  11. Lexcorp Chap 10 BoGSoP

    The Big Giant Space Puddle.

  12. Lexcorp Chap 09 - Life Like Lawyers

    Involuntary manslaughter for fun and profit.

  13. Lexcorp Chap 08 – Benjy and His Dad

    A heartwarming story of a boy, his bees and a rogue trademark.

  14. LexCorp Chap 07 - AHBs

    We go traveling. Check out Rum Doodle in Kathmandu.

  15. Lexcorp Chap 06 The Chickenshits Caucus

    Who runs trhe Universe? The question really is who thinks they run the Universe!

  16. Lexcorp Chap 05 - Up in the Sky

    What's it like to work day to day at the Lexcorp Tower? It's no picnic!

  17. Lexcorp Chap 4 - Grendel

    Let's talk about monsters.

  18. Lexcorp Chap 3 - Atlantis

    Lex makes a discovery ... so what else is new?

  19. Lexcorp Chap 02 - Crime Boss

    Lex begins his career.

  20. Lexorp Chap 1 - Bullion

    Lex's début.

  21. Lexcorp Chapter 0 - A Note

    These are the origins and history of Lexcorp, the privately owned corporate arm and plaything of the world's most brilliant criminal mastermind. Born to a dying planet, making a friend and then a mortal enemy of a refugee from a civilization already lost long ago, Luthor struggles for a way to…

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  22. Last Son of Krypton - The Gift

    The final installment of Last Son of Krypton. It all comes together. Chapters 34, 35 and 36, and the Epilogue.

  23. Last Son of Krypton - The Takeover

    Superman tracks the Master back to Earth and finds that everyone at Clark Kent's office is a zombie, patiently waiting at their desks for the interstellar real estate developer to announce that he's taken possession of the Earth. Chapter 32 and 33 of Last Son of Krypton and Significant and…

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  24. Last Son of Krypton - Chaos

    Here's where the euphemism hits the proverbial. The Master has initiated his outrageous plan and Superman and Luthor decide they are the team to stop him. And the game is afoot. Last Son of Krypton Chapter 28, 29, Significant and Enduring Theme Number 3, and chapters 30 and 31.

  25. Last Son of Krypton - The Mad Dream

    You'd think powers and abilities far greater than those of mortal men would be enough, but no. The Creator of the Universe shows up to help - and we don't mean Jerry and Joe. Chapters 25, 26 and 27 of Last Son of Krypton and a few extras.

  26. Last Son of Krypton - The Interrogation

    Luthor takes to life in the orbit of Vega like a gryzmish to gerstenzang. This is a guy used to thriving in stir. Meanwhile, Superman isn't doing nearly as well. He's about to come in contact with his mortality. Last Son of Krypton chapters 22, 23, Significant and Enduring Theme Number 2 and...

  27. Last Son of Krypton - Pocantico to Vega

    This is the buddy segment of the story. Superman and Luthor go together on a road trip to Oric, the mercantile world orbiting Vega 28 light years from Earth, to track down the purloined Einstein document. And a real-life story about a palm reader, a liar and a lot of shade. Chapters 20 and 21 of...

  28. Last Son of Krypton - Old-Timer

    The Guardians of the Universe have an important message for Superman and they get it to him through characteristically unconventional means. Also, a proposition for a major motion picture. Chapters 17, 18 and 19 of Last Son of Krypton: Oa, The Sociologist and Old-Timer.

  29. Last Son of Krypton - The Caper

    A master thief gets ripped off and has to go to his arch enemy for help, and we learn more about Luthor and Superman's past. And Elliot talks about a threatening phone call that came about as a result of this book's original publication. Chapters fifteen and sixteen of Last Son of Krypton: The...

  30. Last Son of Krypton - The Crooked Philologist

    Luthor struggles with a succession of employees trying to get the stolen Einstein document translated, and Superman deals with the return of Towbee the space minstrel to Metropolis. Chapters 12, 13 and 14 of Last Son of Krypton.

  31. Last Son of Krypton - Oric

    On a faraway world, the mercantile center of countless civilizations for hundreds of light-years around, a wealthy slavemaster plots to build an interstellar real estate empire. And on Earth, Superman agonizes over Luthor's having gotten the best of him in a petty theft. There's more.

  32. Last Son of Krypton - Princeton

    Lex Luthor steals the last bequest to the world of Professor Albert Einstein by distracting Superman with a platoon of hang-gliders intent on plundering downtown Metropolis.

  33. Last Son of Krypton - The Anchorman

    The story moves from ancient Smallville to Eighties Metropolis. We meet the adult Clark Kent and Lois Lane and speculate on the nature of their relationship.

  34. Last Son of Krypton - Smallville

    Beginning Elliot's classic superhero novel, Last Son of Krypton. A planet blows apart, a space probe lands on a window sill in New Jersey and a prophesy ancient beyond time presages inevitable doom.

  35. Miracle Monday - Final Entry

    The thirteenth and final installment of Superman: Miracle Monday. Reckonings, conclusions and one estimable miracle.

  36. Miracle Monday

    Big fight: Superman versus the devil.

  37. Miracle Monday - Getting Affairs in Order

    In the wake of the death of Clark Kent and encroachbing chaos on Earth authored by a demon in possession of the body of the innocent Kristin Wells, the world considers the fate of the planet and that of Kristin herself.

  38. Miracle Monday

    With the death of Clark Kent, Superman feels lost. And we spend a few moments talking about another kind of spiritual loss as well.

  39. Miracle Monday

    The demon takes full possession of Kristin, the Itching Sickness breaks out all over the world, Saturn unleashes scads of disasters and assaults a newsroom full of pundits, including Clark Kent, in a television studio. We really leave our hero hanging out to dry this time.

  40. Elliot Makes Stuff Up

    A demon from Hell makes a deal to get a valuable token from Luthor and Superman has just too much to do.

  41. Miracle Monday - The Auction

    The earliest origins of Lexcorp. Luthor contrives to buy a large piece of futuristic machinery disguised as artwork that he created and planted for safekeeping in the sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art.

  42. Miracle Monday - The Warning

    Superman gets a warning from Max Maven the mentalist at the Magic Castle that matters are about to get dire. In the calm before the conflagration Superman and Lois go out to dinner.

  43. Miracle Monday

    No let me show you how to write action ...

  44. Miracle Monday chapters 6 and 7

    Clark and Lois try to set up Kristin with Jimmy Olsen but she runs off with Steve Lombard because she's impressed with his chest hair. And Lex Luthor walks through a wall.

  45. Miracle Monday - The Wave

    Superman saves Metropolis from a tidal wave and Luthor holds a press conference from a maximum security cell to announce his imminent escape. And Elliot talks to his pal Tommy.

  46. Miracle Monday - The Watchers

    Chapter three of Superman: Miracle Monday wherein we meet C.W. Saturn the agent of Hell on Earth, and Kristin Wells, a history graduate student from the 29th century who is in training to travel to Metropolis in the days of Superman.

  47. Miracle Monday - Thanksgiving

    Elliot reads the beginning of Superman: Mirtacle Monday. The Journal, Thanksgiving and Graduation.

  48. Miracle Monday Preview

    An introductory bonus episode. Elliot reads a little chunk of Miracle Monday and talks about what's to come.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Elliot S! Maggin reads his books. Starting with Miracle Monday, his 1981 bestselling novel that was released with the film Superman II, and with occasional guests, he reads sequential portions of each book until the story is done. Then he reads another one.

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Elliot S! Maggin writer of novels, comics, journalism and film

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Elliot S! Maggin reads his books. Starting with Miracle Monday, his 1981 bestselling novel that was released with the film Superman II, and with occasional guests, he reads sequential portions of each book until the story is done. Then he reads another one.

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