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The reviews are in, with James Gunn’s Superman earning favorable comparisons to the DC character’s Silver Age, with critics claiming the film feels like a “living, breathing comic book.”

Ahead of the film’s release on July 11, fans can buy the Superman Legacy Box Set, which compiles four classic Superman graphic novels that served as inspiration for the latest Superman adaptation. The compilation, announced in August of last year, officially hits shelves on Aug 19 and is available to preorder now.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Gunn, whose previous work includes 2021’s The Suicide Squad and the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, and now serves as the co-head of DC Studios, is a major comic book nerd.

He told Rolling Stone that the major inspirations for the film included All-Star Superman, the mid-2000s series by Grant Morrison, as well as DC’s Silver Age, the campier era of the 1960s-1970s that saw the addition of characters like Supergirl and Krypto, Superman’s dog.

The Superman Legacy Box Set compiles Morrison’s All-Star Superman, as well as Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale’s Superman for All Seasons, Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? from Watchmen creator Alan Moore and artist Curt Swan, and Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.

It’s not the first such box set DC has released tied to its tentpole movie. The Batman Box Set, released as a tie-in with Matt Reeves’ The Batman, compiles several of the inspirations behind the 2022 film, including Jeph Loeb, Batman: The Long Halloween, Darwyn Cooke’s Batman: Ego and Other Tails, and Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Batman: Year One.