In 1986, during John Byrne's revamping of the character, the emphasis was on Superman being the manufactured persona of Clark Kent, the side of the character he most identifies with.

In the wake of John Byrne's reboot of Superman continuity in The Man of Steel, many traditional aspects of Clark Kent were dropped in favor of giving him a more aggressive and extroverted personality ( although not as strong as Lois ), including such aspects as making Clark a top football player in high school, along with being a successful author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

* Clark Kent is real, Superman the mask: With John Byrne's more assertive revamp of Clark Kent as well as Superman's greater grounding in Earth culture and humanity ( as opposed to the everpresent Kryptonian heritage of the Pre-Crisis version ), Superman is considered the " mask " and Clark the person.

In the Superman: The Animated Series of the late 1990s, Kent is based on John Byrne's version of him, becoming more assertive and intelligent.

An unpopular retcon may even be re-retconned away, as happened with John Byrne's Spider-Man: Chapter One.

Marvel enjoyed some of its best successes during Shooter's nine-year tenure as Editor-in-Chief, most notably Chris Claremont and John Byrne's run on the Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller's run on Daredevil, Walt Simonson's run on The Mighty Thor, John Byrne's run on the Fantastic Four and Roger Stern's run on the Avengers.

The series reversed many of John Byrne's decisions from The Man of Steel to reflect the more Silver Age-oriented version of Superman, similar to the Smallville television series and Superman movies.

The television series Smallville presents a version of Krypton that borrows elements from the 1978 movie version of the planet combined with elements of John Byrne's Post-Crisis version of the planet and culture.

Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with Batman: Year One, George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Steel all took place shortly following Crisis on Infinite Earths, and changed substantial elements of the characters ' backstories.

Greg LaRocque began a lengthy run in # 16 ( November 1985 ), including a crossover with John Byrne's recently-rebooted Superman titles in # 37 and # 38.

An example in the comic book genre is John Byrne's resplendent use of cameos in Marvel Comics ’ Iron Fist # 8, which features appearances by Byrne himself, Howard the Duck ( on a poster ), Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, Sam McCloud, Fu Manchu, and Wolverine.

Shortly after the miniseries was published, Superboy's career was discarded from Superman's continuity after the 1985 – 1986 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths and writer John Byrne's 1986 revamp of Superman's origin, The Man of Steel.

Following John Byrne's revamp of Superman, a new version of Superboy was introduced as a means of patching the Legion of Super-Heroes ' continuity, which was undermined by the removal of Kal-El's Superboy career.

John Byrne said in interviews and on his website that he drew a possible face for Wolverine, but then learned that Dave Cockrum had already drawn him unmasked in X-Men # 98 ( April 1976 ), long before Byrne's run on the series.

Siegel was invited in 1986 by DC Comics ' editor Julius Schwartz to write an " imaginary " final story for Superman, following Marv Wolfman's Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and before John Byrne's The Man of Steel miniseries, which reintroduced Superman.

A few years later, Pérez inked John Byrne's pencils for the Superman / Wonder Woman story in Action Comics # 600 ( March 1988 ).

According to John Byrne's liner notes in Generations 3 Issue # 1, this character is Janet Hall, who is the granddaughter of the original Blackhawk, as well as Hawkman ( Carter Hall ) and Hawkgirl ( Shiera Sanders ).

" Tales of the New Gods " was a backup feature that began in John Byrne's Jack Kirby's Fourth World, and continued in Walt Simonson's Orion series for DC Comics.

Lori was soon brought back in a new incarnation after John Byrne's 1986 Man of Steel limited series, which revised Superman's origins.

* Lori Lemaris pin-up art from comic book artist John Byrne's website

After the 1985-1986 miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths and John Byrne's 1986 miniseries The Man of Steel rewrote Superman's origins, details about Jor-El's background and character were changed.

With the assistance of John Nash and David Heller, both British members of the Borland Board, the company was taken public on London's Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) in 1986.

Westminster John Knox Pr., 1986.

) Where the irony with which Reefer Madness was adopted as a midnight favorite had its roots in a countercultural sensibility, in the latter's place there is now the paradoxical element of nostalgia: the leading revivals currently on the circuit ironically include clearly non-cult films like John Hughes oeuvre — The Breakfast Club ( 1985 ), Pretty in Pink ( 1986 ), and Ferris Bueller's Day Off ( 1986 ), which were major studio productions and popular and financially successful during their original releases, and the teen adventure film The Goonies ( 1985 ).

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* 1986 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist ( b. 1912 )

* Hoyt L. Edge, Robert L. Morris, Joseph H. Rush, John Palmer, Foundations of Parapsychology: Exploring the Boundaries of Human Capability, Routledge Kegan Paul, 1986, ISBN 0-7102-0226-1

Proposals to allow divorce were put by referendum by two Fine Gael – led governments, in 1986 under FitzGerald, and in 1995 under John Bruton, passing very narrowly on this second attempt.

In Britain, the Courage brewing group was acquired in 1986 by Australian businessman John Elliott.

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

Widespread discontent in Haiti began in 1983, when Pope John Paul II condemned the regime during a visit, finally provoking a rebellion, and in February 1986, after months of disorder, the army forced Duvalier to resign and go into exile.

The term was coined by Reformed Baptist pastor John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

* John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt ( 1986 ).

* 1916 – John D. MacDonald, American novelist ( d. 1986 )

1986, The Chronicle of John Malalas: A Translation, Byzantina Australiensia 4 ( Melbourne: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies ) ISBN 0-9593626-2-2

There she soon met Freda Boner ( now Freda Love ) and John Strohm, forming the Blake Babies with them in 1986, at the age of 19.

On 8 June 1979 Pope John Paul II prayed at her sarcophagus ; and the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially affirmed her beatification on 8 August 1986.

* John Anthony Walker ( born 1937 ), American communications specialist convicted in 1986 of spying for the Soviet Union

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

Dream West was a TV 1986 docudrama that includes Kit Carson and John C. Fremont as characters.

In the 1986 limited series The Man of Steel, John Byrne redesigned Lex Luthor from scratch, intending to make him a villain that the 1980s would recognize: an evil corporate executive.