The Death of Superman ( Rus. Death of Superman ) - the storyline in the comic book about Superman , consisting of three arches . It was published by DC Comics in 1992–1993. In subsequent editions containing all three plot arches, the name was changed to The Death and Return of Superman (in Russian. Death and Superman Returns ) [1] .
| Superman Death | |
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| The death of superman | |
 Cover Superman vol. 2 # 75 (January 1993). | |
| Story | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | comic book |
| Publication dates | 3 plot arches: " The Death of Superman " (October - November 1992) " Funeral for a Friend " (January - June 1993) “ Reign of the Supermen! " (June - October 1993) |
| Number of issues | sixteen (1 arch) |
| Characters | Superman Exterminator Superboy (Kon-L) Steel Superman Cyborg Lois lane Justice League Doomsday Supergirl (Matrix) Lex Luthor Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Mongul |
| Creators | |
| Screenwriters | (3 arches) en: Dan Jurgens ; en: Louise Simonson ; en: Roger Stern (1 and 2 arches) en: Jerry Ordway (Arcs 2 and 3) en: Karl Kesel (2 arch) en: William Messner-Loebs (3 arch) en: Gerard Jones |
| Pencil | (3 arches) en: Jon Bogdanove ; en: Tom Grummett ; en: Jackson Guice ; en: Dan Jurgens (2 arch) Dennis Janke; en: Denis Rodier ; en: Walt Simonson ; en: Curt Swan (3 arch) en: MD Bright |
| Ink | (3 arches) Brett Breeding; Doug Hazelwood; Dennis Janke; Denis Rodier (1 and 2 arches) en: Rick Burchett (2 arch) Mike Machlan; en: Ande Parks ; en: Josef Rubinstein ; Trevor Scott; Walter simonson (3 arch) en: Romeo Tanghal |
| The authors | en: Mike Carlin |
In The Death of Superman, Superman engages in battle with the super-villain Dumsday [2] . In the Superman release (vol. 2) # 75 (1992), after a long battle, both opponents die from multiple injuries [2] . Society’s response to Superman’s death was featured in the second arch of Funeral for a Friend ( Rus. Funeral for a friend ). The emergence of four "new" Supermen and the return of the present Superman happened in the third arch of Reign of the Supermen! ( Russian. Superman Board! ).
Editor-in-chief Mark Carlin and a team of screenwriters: Dan Yurgens , Roger Stern , Louise Simonson , Jerry Ordway , and Karl Kesela expected great success. The circulation of the comic book about Superman went international, interrupting the planned sales schedule, and was completely sold overnight.
In 2007, based on the main storyline, the animated film Superman: Judgment Day was created [3] .
Content
Story
Doomsday!
The International Justice League ( Guy Gardner , Blue Beetle , Booster Gold , Maxima , Fire , Ice and Bloodwind ) are taking a call to destroy a drilling rig in Busayrus County, Ohio . Following the path of massive destruction, the team is forced to engage in battle with an unknown creature [2] . The creature easily overcomes the Justice League and finishes the battle, throwing Booster Gold into the stratosphere. Superman rescues Booster by intercepting him in the air. He says to Superman: “It's like the appearance of“ The Last Judgment ( Doomsday ), ”so the creature got its name.
A man of steel arrives on the scene, interrupting a television interview with Kat Grant in the release of Justice League America # 69. He and the battle-worthy members of the Justice League fight the Destroyer. By attacking Dumsday, superheroes use all their strength, but the only thing they can do is tear or burn his costume. Dumsday again defeats the League and jumps away. Superman follows the Destroyer and drowns him at the bottom of the lake. But Doomsday escapes from the lake and engages in battle with Superman on the streets. Maxim again engages in battle; Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen go to the center of events to shoot TV material; Lex Luthor (at that time impersonating his non-existent son, Lex Luthor II), discourages Supergirl (Matrix) from joining Superman. The fight goes to the gas station, where Maxima produces a big bang and Dumsday escapes. The keeper finds Superman and Maxim and offers his help.
Superman again pursues Doomsday on the trail of destruction, waiting for a convenient opportunity to attack. Lex Jr. convinces Supergirl that her help is needed in Metropolis when Superman is in a completely different place. Having broken into the home appliance store, Dumsday sees on TV a wrestling show, which takes place in Metropolis, and, having seen the road sign pointing to his side, he goes there. Superman attacks and discards the Destroyer in the opposite direction, where he lands on the mountain in which the Cadmus Project base is located. In the fray, they destroy most of the living forest. When the Keeper comes to the rescue, Dumsday knocks him down and jumps toward Metropolis.
Dumsday moves under the ground, where he breaks the pipes of gas and electronic networks, and arrives in Newtown - a large section of Metropolis. Supergirl comes to the aid of Superman, but with a single blow of the Being - falls unconscious to the ground. Professor Emil Hamilton and Bibbo Bibbowski shoot Dumsday with a laser gun, but it has no effect on him. Local police open fire on the Destroyer, but again he was not injured. Superman returns to battle.
Superman and Dumsday fight each other using everything they can. Shock waves of such force are created from their blows that windows are broken in the area. At one moment in front of the Daily Planet building, each of them strikes an opponent with maximum force. The fall of two titans, a moment later - Superman, in the arms of Lois Lane dies from numerous wounds. [2] Jimmy, Ice and Bloodwind are also present at the end.
Events take place in Superman (vol. 2) # 75. The publication contains 22 pages, where each page is a single frame, which was the basis in previous editions - Adventures of Superman # 497 was made entirely from four panel pages, Action Comics # 684 of three, and Superman: The Man of Steel # 19 total of two. The whole story was immediately collected in a soft cover called The Death of Superman (from English. - "Death of Superman").
Funeral for a Friend
Reign of the Supermen!
Reviews
Beyond Comics
Television
Cinema
- The film " Superman: Doomsday ", the first of a series of Original Animated Films of the DC Universe , is partly an adaptation of this plot.
- In the movie “ Batman vs. Superman: At the Dawn of Justice, ” Dumsday created Lex Luthor as a result of a genetic experiment that included the corpse of General Zod and Luthor's blood.
- In 2018, based on the Animation Universe DC, a cartoon based on the same comic book was released.
Video Games
- Beat them All - The Death and Return of Superman, developed by Blizzard Entertainment , published by Sunsoft . The plot of the game is fully focused on the book of the same name, the player will have to play for each of the "Supermen" ( Cyborg-Superman , Destroyer , Superfight , Steel ). Characters such as Green Lantern , Supergirl and Mongul are excluded from the plot.
Novels
- In the fall of 1993, Roger Stern adapted the story “Death of Superman” into a novel entitled “The Death and Life of Superman” (in Russian. Life and Death of Superman ). The novel was released in hardcover form, and a year later in paperback (Binding ISBN 0-553-09582-X , Cover ISBN 0-553-56930-9 ) A version for the younger generation was written by Louise Simonson called Superman: Doomsday & Beyond ( Russian Superman: Judgment Day and after ) and was released simultaneously with the “Death and Life” binding.
Music
- In honor of the hero, the Crash Test Dummies group wrote the song " Superman's Song ", which praises Superman and says that "The world can never see another person like him." The song was released in 1991, that is, before Superman died.
- The 2007 album The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu jazz musician Carla Bleigh has a track titled " Death of Superman / Dream Sequence No. 1: Flying .
Radio
Toys
- In 1994, Kenner Products released a series of character figures based on Death of Superman . These are the first figures of such characters as the long-haired Superman , Superfight , Steel , Doomsday , Conduit, and the exclusive Shapefighter ( ToyFare ) figure.
Parodies
Awards
Notes
- ↑ Superhero Wages Battle To The Deaths , Sun Sentinel (November 20, 1992). The appeal date is October 16, 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Robert Greenberger, Robert. The DC Comics Encyclopedia. - Dorling Kindersley , 2008. - P. 108. - ISBN 0-7566-4119-5 .
- ↑ Superman Doomsday DVD Official Site (DC Universe) . Warnervideo.com. The date of circulation is February 3, 2011. Archived October 31, 2012.
Links
- Superman: Doomsday Official Website for the Superman Doomsday DVD
- Superman: Doomsday Official MySpace profile for the Superman Doomsday movie
- " Death of Superman " Promotion of 1992
- Review for the death of the Superman storyline (by Neal Bailey)
- "The Death and the Return of Superman" at Superman Through the Ages!
- Review of earlier Deaths of Superman
- "Death of Superman" - The day Superman died