If by "online" you mean free and legal, then no. If by "online" you mean downloadable for a fee, then most of them are available via
DC's digital comics site.
Yes, that's what I had in mind, more or less: I've already downloaded some stuff from the Apple iBook store, but I'm not sure if they have the whole catalogue, older issues included. I'll take a look at the DC site, too. Which takes me to the real issue here...
Keep in mind that in this era, stories typically continued across comics. So a story begun in, for example, Action Comics, might be continued in Superman Comics and then Adventures of Superman comics. If you only read one series of comics (e.g., Action Comics), you will be missing parts of the story. This is why, in that era, the triangle numbering system was developed. The first Superman-related comic published in each calendar year was given a triangle on the cover with the number "1" inside it. Subsequent comics would have subsequent numbers; they told you in what order to read the issues in order to be able to follow the stories.
THIS!!! C'mon DC, why on Earth (and Krypton) did you have to make things so complicated?! One gets lost having to switch from a series to another in a such huge archive...
I guess I'll have to search the internet for some kind of reference chart to help me keep up with the continuity.
The Wedding Album, The Death and Life of Superman and The Death of Clark Kent are my favourite arcs.
Take you both for the info!
