| Post-Byrne Era (1988-1990) |
With John Byrne's departure, Jerry Ordway remained on Adventures of
Superman and Roger Stern took over as writer on Superman. Their story featured a
newly violent Gangbuster who, during the alien invasion of earth (the excellent Invasion!
crossover), was revealed to be Superman himself, unstable since his murder of the three Phantom
Zone criminals. Afraid of himself, Superman exiled himself to space.During Superman's exile, artist Dan Jurgens first wrote for the Superman
family of titles. The end of the exile saw the return of Action Comics as a Superman
title and the addition of George Perez as a writer. With Superman's return to Earth, Jerry
Ordway was reassigned (appropriate given his seniority) to Superman. After some months
of shifting writers, including cowriting by George Perez, Roger Stern settled as writer on
Action Comics and Dan Jurgens as writer on Adventures of Superman.The end of this era came not through a change of writers but through an
event: when Mr. Mxyzptlk stripped Superman of his powers, Clark Kent took the opportunity to
propose to Lois Lane, and she accepted. His powers returned, the Superman mythos received a
second dramatic shock: the death of Lex Luthor. An era had passed for the Superman titles,
which had taken a sudden turn away from all previous continuity.This era featured a number of memorable narrative elements. Superman being
haunted by the ghosts of those he killed, an unprecedented act in Superman's history, is quite
memorable. If his exile in space, while well-done, had clear narrative precedents (such as
Swamp Thing's then-recent exile in space under
Alan Moore), Superman's exile had a number of memorable
elements. Luthor regretted Superman's absence, which forced him to redefine himself. Similarly,
Superman's return caused Luthor mixed emotions. Moreover, the exile culminated in a Mongul story
revealing a tie to Krypton, a well-remembered tale that was even adapted on Cartoon Network's
Justice League animated show. Of course, Superman's proposal to Lois Lane and the death
of Lex Luthor, the latter of which was particularly well-done as a tale, are memorable unto
themselves.
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| Adventures of Superman #445 | Brainiac is killing people, including Pete Shoemaker, to find a cure to salvage Fine's body that is rejecting Brainiac; Cat is lectured by Perry about her drinking; Jose is contacted by Advanced Research Laboratories, unaware ARL is connected to Luthor; Jimmy learns from Maggie that Milton Fine was released from Bellevue hospital; Superman rescues Jimmy and Cat from Brainiac, who attacks Superman; cover-dated October 1988 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #23 | Mike Mignola pencils; P. Craig Russell inks; Batman shows Clark a stolen antique book which has pages describing the Silver Banshee's fights and adds new pages; Jimmy and Lois go to Castle Broen, ancestral home of the Clan McDougal, captured by Bevan and Seamus McDougal; Superman arrives with the clan's book and is attacked by the Silver Banshee until the Crone appears and destroys the castle and apparently with it kills the three McDougals | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #446 | a new Gangbuster (Superman) returns; Max Carter escapes during a weapons heist at LexCorp; Morgan hires Cat; Dr. Happersen at ARL helps Jose walk | |||||
| Superman (second series) #24 | Perry visits the ill Dr. Faulkner; campaigning for President, Sen. Herbert Forrest snatches a photo with Superman; Dr. Tom Moyers cures Faulkner but controls Rampage to sabotage Forrest's campaign by exposing Forrest's involvement with the C.I.A. and Qurac; Superman helps Faulkner capture Moyers; Faulkner makes a new regulator collar and is hired by S.T.A.R. | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #447 | Superman finds Quraci mines in Metropolis' harbor; Gangbuster rifles the Quraci delegates' quarters; Luthor pays for surgery on Milton Fine's brain tumor; Clark saves Luthor and reporter Toby Raynes from assassin Max Carter; Gangbuster gets a tip from Bibbo and finds Carter who confesses working for Intergang; Luthor hires a hitman who kills Carter; Lois sees Jose can walk; Henderson asks Jose about Gangbuster who is suspected of killing Carter | |||||
| Superman (second series) #25 | Luthor demonstrates to Brainiac the effects of a bionic implant placed in his brain when the brain tumor was removed; Clark is tired and experiences nightmares caused by Brainiac; when Superman looks to check on Fine, Brainiac attacks again and makes Superman think he has committed suicide, but Brainiac instead goes to Luthor to show he's removed Luthor's controls and now wants to be "partners" | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #448 | Willy Hargreaves, the hitman who killed Carter, and was injured by a rigged gun when doing so, feels suicidal and talks with Superman; Amanda McCoy talks with Matt Stockton; Jose visits Lois, who warns him that ARL is linked to Lexcorp; alien invaders approach Earth; Gangbuster taunts Hargreaves; Clark meets Jose, tells him he's working on an Intergang story; Matrix is with the Kents; Dubbilex detects the Invasion | |||||
| Superman (second series) #26 | an Invasion! crossover; Clark is feeling tired; Perry, Lois, Clark hear that Aliens have invaded Melbourne; Superman attacks Thangarian Wingmen in Metropolis, while Baron Sunday attacks Superman with a doll with part of Superman's cape; Captain Atom meets the Guardian; Gangbuster (Superman) tracks down and captures Baron Sunday, has a buzzing in his head; Jimmy gets no response from Superman with his signal watch | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #449 | an Invasion! crossover; looking for the missing Superman, Guardian finds and fights with Gangbuster (Superman); when the Newsboy Legion try to help, Superman rescues them and Guardian from drowning; Dr. McCoy and Matt Stockton; Superman meets Ace O' Club owner Manesis, Jimmy, Bibbo; McCoy looks for Clark at the Planet, sees Lois; Captain Atom asks Superman to negotiate a cease-fire, but the Dominators demand Earth surrender all meta-humans | |||||
| Superman (second series) #27 | an Invasion! crossover; cover-dated January 1989 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #450 | an Invasion! crossover; includes an editor's note thanking John Byrne for his contributions to the two Superman titles' story since he left; cover-dated January 1989 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #28 | while Superman visits various unsuccessful planets and stars, Intergang kills a detective in Clark Kent's apartment, confusing him for Kent; cover-dated February 1989 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #451 | while Superman (cleverly on the writer's part) materializes inside a large alien, Lex Luthor sends Jose Delgado after Professor Hamilton; cover-dated February 1989 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #29 | as Lois investigates the deaths in Trudeau, South Dakota, Superman encounters the entity responsible in space | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #452 | Superman battles, then converts, the entities responsible for Trudeau; page 1 refers to Superman as less that 29 years old | |||||
| Superman (second series) #30 | 14-page main story; 8-page secondary story (in which Luthor, with an interest in getting a psionics lab, decides to make a hostile takeover of S.T.A.R. Labs) | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #453 | 14-page main story, in which Matrix adopts Clark Kent's form; 8-page secondary story (in which Luthor allows rumors of a S.T.A.R. takeover to drive up the company stock, then offers to buy shares) | |||||
| Superman (second series) #31 | tells, without advancing Superman's space story, of Lex Luthor dealing with Mr. Mxyzptik's return to a Superman-less Metropolis; 8-page secondary story (in which Morgan buys S.T.A.R shares hoping to make a profit selling them to Lexcorp; Lexcorp announces buying shares at a higher price; S.T.A.R. learns Lexcorp wants the psionics lab and sells it to a company called Simtech, issues new shares as a 'poison pill' defense; Luthor toasts in victory) | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #454 | the 14-page main story features the introduction of Mongul and Matrix as Clark Kent in Metropolis; 8-page secondary story (in which S.T.A.R. asks Morgan to have Galaxy act as a "White Knight" to buy shares, but Morgan declines; Luthor says his buying isn't leveraged; Lexcorp announces they are no longer buying and S.T.A.R. share values dive hurting S.T.A.R. after the new issued stocks, and earlier share buyers like Morgan; Luthor ends up profiting from selling off S.T.A.R. shares he'd had purchased earlier and sold during the "takeover" for a profit, and because Simtech was a dummy corporation -- he plans to use the psionics lab to study the sedated Brainiac) | |||||
| Action Comics Annual #2 | 48-page story featuring three interlocking narratives, one written and pencilled by Jerry Ordway with John Statema inks, the second with George Perez script and inks with Mike Mignola pencils, and the third with Roger Stern script and with pencils by Curt Swan and Brett Breeding inks; also contains "Who's Who" pages on Matrix and "Cat" Grant, along with a 2-page afterword by George Perez; page 15 has Superman say he did not learn of his Kyptonian heritage until at least 25 years old; cover-dated 1989 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #32 | Superman battles Mongul; Matrix as Clark Kent meets Jimmy Olsen | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #455 | revolution erupts on Warworld; Matrix as Clark Kent visits the Daily Planet | |||||
| Superman (second series) #33 | the Cleric dies, giving Superman the Eradicator; cover-dated July 1989 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #456 | Darkseid communicates with Morgan Edge, getting the giant robot Turmoil released on Metropolis; co-script by Jerry Ordway and Dan Jurgens; cover-dated July 1989 | |||||
| Action Comics #643 | George Perez script; Superman returns to Earth as he returns to Action Comics; Darkseid (actually Desaad, as revealed in this issue) and Edge watch as Superman defeats Turmoil; cover-dated July 1989 | |||||
 Larger Version Available | Superman: Exile | collects Superman (second series) #28-30 (without the secondary story from #30) and 32-33, Adventures of Superman #451-456 (without the secondary stories in #453-454), Action Comics Annual #2, and (21.5 pages of) Action Comics #643; 304 pages with no introduction or afterword but printed on glossy paper; published in the month carrying the cover date August 1998
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| Superman (second series) #34 | Jimmy visits Clark's apartment and takes a photo of Suprman with Clark (Matrix), tells Superman that Guardian wants to see him; at Cadmus Maggie and James Sawyer watch their daughter who was infected by her encounter with Skyhook (Dr. Aleister Hook); Skyhook summons Jamie Sawyer and other kids who previously were with Skyhook; at the church, a child Oliver helps save Jamie; trying to kill Superman, Skyhook impales himself and the affected children revert to normal | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #457 | George Perez & Roger Stern script; Ty Templeton inks; Clark in Metropolis experiences a flashback to the silent explosion, as does Matrix who is now back in Smallville with the Kents; Lana phones Clark worried about Matrix; at a charity dinner Intergang tries killing Clark, Lois, Cat; while Superman is stopping the Intergang thugs, in Smallville Matrix is replaying what Superman does and attacking the police | |||||
| Action Comics #644 | Roger Stern & George Perez script; in Smallville, Matrix thinks Superman is an impostor and attacks Superman; during their fight Lana is injured; in Metropolis, Dr. Faulkner is trying to locate Superman to help Starman; Matrix chooses to leave Earth, still using an appearance like Superman, so as not to further endanger anyone | |||||
| Superman (second series) #35 | Curt Swan & Kerry Gammill pencils; Morgan following surgery experiences meeting Black Racer, Metron, Darkseid/DeSaad, recalls his dad killing his mom, meeting Darkseid (DeSaad), buying out Galaxy from his dad, is nearly killed by a doctor working for Intergang; Brainiac begins having agitated dreams, finds his mind can now exit his body in an astral form | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #458 | George Perez & Dan Jurgens script; Klaus Janson inks; while doing aerobic exercise, Jimmy's body loses control and becomes painfully elastic; Emil's test show a virus caused Jimmy's condition, and Superman may have infected him when he returned to Earth from exile a week ago; near Mars, a spaceship with Sazu approaches | |||||
| Action Comics #645 | Roger Stern & George Perez script; contains the first appearance of Maxima; Starman recharges Superman after fighting Parasite; in Lowell County Kansas; Superman checks on Lana in the hospital; Clark finds the Planet staff entranced by Lady Maxima who is looking for Superman; Superman rescues the mayor and city hall taken oven by Sazu and Maxima; Sazu destroys the Maxima simulacrum | |||||
| Superman (second series) #36 | Superman meets the Guardian finally since leaving Earth; Dubbilex scans Superman about why he acted as Gangbuster; Joe Morgan tells Morgan Edge not to hurt Cat and Adam; Prankster attacks Morgan Edge; Perry and Alice meet Jerry's new girlfriend Tammy; Galaxy fires Cat | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #459 | George Perez & Dan Jurgens script; Tim Gula inks; after Emil tests Jimmy, Superman, and the Eradicator at S.T.A.R. the Eradicator causes Jimmy to become elastic again, and causes an explosion; Superman, fearful that destroying the Eradicator will create a huge explosion, buries it in the Antarctic and decided to have Jimmy taken to Cadmus for a cure | |||||
| Action Comics #646 | Keith Giffen & Roger Stern script; Keith Giffen pencils; still in the Antarctic, Superman finds and battles a huge alien burrowing beast left by aliens on Earth long ago; Brainiac still in astral state | |||||
| Superman (second series) #37 | Jose breaks up with Lois; Superman takes an unhappy Jimmy to Cadmus; Jimmy dreams of Husque; Newsboy Legion help Jimmy leave Cadmus using the Whiz Wagon pursued by Superman and the Guardian; Jimmy no longer considers himself Superman's "Pal" | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #460 | Andy Kubert inks; contains the first appearance of the Fortress of Solitude, the Phantom Zone, and Kem-L; Clark has a headache; Lois and Perry meet Collin Thornton who is looking to hire Clark; after hallucinating seeing the Eradicator, Superman flies to the Antarctic and finds the Eradicator has built an underground Fortress and altered two American scientists; Superman learns about Kem-L constructing the Eradicator; Superman fights and loses to the Eradicator; Lois finds Clark back without a headache | |||||
| Action Comics #647 | Superman remembers it was Brainiac who attacked him as Gangbuster in Lexcorp; Brainiac controls Happersen to shut down Lexcorp in Metropolis; Superman saves Luthor from an attack in Dallas and warns him about Brainiac; Metallo is helping Brainiac in the psionics lab | |||||
| Superman (second series) #38 | Superman visits the Farnum and Beatty circus and the "Amazing Brainiac"; Jimmy visits Emil who confirms Jimmy is cured, trades places with Husque; bad weather and a tidal wave hits Metropolis; Emil calls the Planet and gets Alice, while trying to find Superman | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #461 | George Perez inks; Thornton offers Clark a job; Emil tells Superman an Antarctic ice melt caused the tidal wave; Superman tells Emil he's forgotten about the Eradicator; Superman goes to the Fortress and in the Phantom Zone talks with a hologram of Kem-L, is told of the Kryptonian rite of passage by Jor-El and Lara back on Krypton; after undergoing the rite, the gateway is destroyed and the Eradicator stops its actions | |||||
| Action Comics #648 | Brainiac sends Metallo and other robots to Metropolis; Brainiac controls Dr. Augustine and has him supply "goop" to help restore his dying body to a form like his from Colu, while Happersen already is doing more modifications to Brainiac's body; after being warned by Dubbilex, Superman and Guardian capture Metallo; Luthor goes to his psionics lab and is captured by Brainiac | |||||
| Superman (second series) #39 | Bob Mcleod inks; Superman finds Husque in Metropolis and takes him to Emil, then logically goes to testify against Morgan Edge; in the void dimension, Jimmy is saved by "Number One," who tells how Jimmy's Dad secretly worked with Cadmus as head of security and was assigned to track down two runaways of Dabney Donavan; when Jimmy is being attacked by monsters from the Evil Factory, Superman and Emil manage to replace him with Husque; Clark logically accepts a job as Newstime's managing editor from Collin Thornton; cover-dated January 1990 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #462 | Clark's last day working at the Planet; Brainiac has Luthor and Happersen trapped, and creates a false broadcast of Luthor in Metropolis; the Planet staff learn intern copy girl Alice is homeless; Clark spends Christmas in Smallville, with the Kents and Lana who is out of the hospital; cover-dated January 1990 | |||||
| Action Comics #649 | Brainiac continues gloating over Luthor; Clark meets Thornton, moves into his new office, finds former S.T.A.R. psionics lab sold off after LexCorp takeover attempt; at the lab, Superman finds Brainiac with a modified body using bionics and genetic modifications making Brainiac stronger; Brainiac knocks out Superman by using the staff's brainpower, then escapes in a space-ship, while having Superman find four bombs left in Metropolis by Metallo; cover-dated January 1990 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #40 | Morgan is out on bail before his trial, and finds his dad Vincent is now Galaxy's C.E.O.; Mokkari and Simyan teleport a Four Armed Terror to fight Superman in Metropolis; the Terror causes Superman to have an allergic reaction; gatherer drones get tissue samples of Superman; Dr. Sanchez treats Superman and returns the kryptonite used by Bloodsport | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #463 | Flash (Wally West) meets Mxyzptlk at Mt. Rushmore; Superman forced to race Flash around the world by Mr. Mxyzptlk at several times the speed of sound; Lois tells Lucy she misses Clark; Mxyzptlk offers Luthor red kryptonite; cameos as observers by Captain Atom, Elongated Man, Metamorpho, Power Girl, Martian Manhunter, Mr. Miracle, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle; Flash manages to win and Mxyzptlk reveals he had decided he'd leave if Flash won, and had lied by saying he'd leave only if Superman won | |||||
| Action Comics #650 | Draaga hires interstellar cabbie K'Raamdyn to get to Earth; Lois recalls how she met Superman, and how the Kents told her they raised Clark and the young Superman; Martian Manhunter tells Flash how Superman helped the Justice League defeat Xotor with Barry Allen as Flash, turned down a nomination as JLA member but helped fight Starbreaker, Kanjar Ro; Power Girl recalls how Superman saved her life, how she, Superman, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Firestorm, and Batman were summoned by Metron to help the New Gods on New Genesis; defender Ronald Hamel meets his next client, Sazu; in space, Maxima plans on marrying Superman; Jimmy locks away his signal watch; Amanda McCoy remembers Luthor disbelieving that Clark is Superman; in space, Lobo is looking for a fight; Jerry Ordway, Curt Swan, George Perez, Kerry Gammill, & Dan Jurgens pencils; Brett Breeding, Bob Mcleod, Art Thibert, & Dennis Janke inks | |||||
| Superman (second series) #41 | Superman takes the four kryptonite bullets to the Fortress; Lobo accepts a wager to kill Superman, and gets teleported to Earth by Raof; Lobo finds Bibbo's tavern; Clark doesn't want to see Jimmy at Newstime, and acts cool at a birthday party for Lana held by the Kents in Smallville; Jimmy finds Cadmus and Guardian; Lobo, Raof, and Bibbo track Superman | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #464 | Clark turns down a date with Lois, and considers a double life may be illogical; Lobo, Raof, and Bibbo find the Fortress; Superman meets and fights Lobo, eventually tricking him into believing Lobo has killed Superman; Lobo is too drunk after leaving Earth to remember what happened; the Kents try to make up with Lana, for how Clark behaved | |||||
| Action Comics #651 | Maxima reaches Earth and sends Sazu back to her ship; Superman meets the real Maxima; after Maxima tells how she obtained a genetic map of Superman, and that they are compatible, Superman rejects marrying her and considers expressing love irrational; Superman defeats Maxima, but the federal government let her leave Earth peacefully; during their fight, Superman's costume reweaves to appear Kryptonian | |||||
| Superman (second series) #42 | Draaga reaches Earth and challenges Superman in New York City; Superman has changed costume and become Krypton Man; the Kents are trying to get through to Clark; Clark's apartment manager is evicting him; Jose is evicted by Lexcorp; Cat's ex-husband wants to provide her with a bodyguard during Morgan's trial; Morgan tells Mannheim to have no new Intergang activity; Mannheim decides to reopen the files on the reporters; Emil plans to use tv feed of the battle in NYC to teleport Superman and Draaga into a force field at his lab, but accidentally transports Superman, Draaga, K'Raamdyn, and the top half of the Statue of Liberty onto the moon; shuttle Excalibur launches satellite | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #465 | Emil transfers Superman to his lab just as he's going to kill Draaga; K'Raamdyn leaves with Draaga; Excalibur's mission is aborted; Thornton fires Clark; Clark tells Pa Kent that he's abandoning his identity as Clark and Superman; Jose resumes being Gangbuster; Krypton Man tells Gangbuster he will stop helping with Earth's affairs; as the Kents fly to Metropolis, Krypton Man has gone to his fortress and embraced the Eradicator | |||||
| Action Comics #652 | the Kents find Kal-El with robots packing up Clark's belongings, intending to move to the Fortress; Kal-El takes the Kents to see the Fortress; Clark realizes he's been controlled by the Eradicator, and fights the robots and warsuit, stops the Eradicator, throws his Krypton Man costume and the Eradicator into the sun | |||||
| Superman (second series) #43 | Superman restores the Statue of Liberty; Simyan and Mokkari grow a green-skinned clone of Superman and teleport the Kryptonite Man; Guardian and Jimmy find the Evil Factory in Scotland's Lake Trevor; Joe Morgan hires Jose as bodyguard for Cat; Clark gets a freelance job at the Planet; while fighting the Kryptonite Man, Superman finds himself teleported to Lake Trevor; Mrs. Olsen teleports Simyan and Mokkari into the void where the Kryptonite Man is, tells how she was kidnapped by two clones of Jimmy's deceased dad and held at the Evil Factory | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #466 | The Excalibur crashes and the four crewmembers find their bodies transformed by radiation from a Lexcorp experiment; Clark and Lois have a date; Mannheim tells Morgan he now will control Intergang; Superman meets Hank Henshaw and the other crew; one member (Steve) as an energy form goes to the sun apparently dying; hank apparently dies at Lexcorp; Superman saves Hank's wife Terri, but the other Jim Garrison commits suicide; Clark tells Lois he wants their relationship to progress; Dick Giordano inks | |||||
| Action Comics #653 | Mannheim decides to have Cat kidnapped; Amanda McCoy feels responsible for Matt Stockton's death, confronts Clark with Luthor's kryptonite ring that she's stolen; when Clark collapses, Amanda panics and flees thinking she's accidentally killed Superman; then she gets attacked by muggers | |||||
| Superman (second series) #44 | Slam Bradley, Jose, and Superman stop an attempt by Blindspot to kidnap Cat for Intergang; Emil signals Superman, says he believes radiated green rock used by the Evil Factory was a byproduct of the Eradicator's attempt to reshape Earth; in Gotham, Batman recovers a strange green ring from a vagrant, who had been in Metropolis; Luthor discovers that his kryptonite ring is missing; Batman decides to go to Metropolis; Mannheim has Chiller and Shockwave assigned to get Cat | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #467 | Batman leaves a message for Clark to meet him and inspects another body in Metropolis morgue with traces of radiation; Gangbuster sees Batman and Superman, then is captured by Chiller and Shockwave; Batman and Superman find in Lexcorp that the Metropolis body is the woman with the ring that confronted Clark, and was Amanda McCoy; at the Zenith (Baldy) awards, Lois and Clark attend, Bruce Wayne meets Luthor, Luthor thanks Clark for saving his life from Intergang, Steve Lombard, Intergang attack looking for Clark and Lois; Chiller kidnaps Cat | |||||
| Action Comics #654 | Superman stops Shockwave; Gangbuster, Batman, and Superman rescue Cat from Dr. Noon, catch Chiller; Batman and Superman find Amanda's diary and Ma Kent's scrapbook in Amanda's apartment; Morgan is convicted in his trial; Superman asks Batman to keep the kryptonite ring in case he ever loses control | |||||
| Superman (second series) #45 | Clark visits his parents in Smallville; Oto indians kidnap Pete Ross for publicity in a mining dispute; Mrs. Olsen has gone into shock, so she's put in a psychiatric hospital; Jerry White has a job at Blaze's new nightclub; an Oto shaman called Firewolf distracts Superman, frees Pete; Pete meets Superman; Clark and Lana talk; also features Jimmy Olsen's diary | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #468 | Hank Henshaw's mind has survived and can create a body by shaping machinery; Henshaw visits his wife in a hospital, goes to a NASA installation, learns from Superman that his form is jamming electronics along the east coast and that Terri is now catatonic, broadcasts himself to Superman's matrix in orbit, converts it so he can travel in space; Superman places the rest of the matrix in the Fortress; Lucy Lane has a date with Jimmy; Clark learns Lois didn't take a plane to see him in Smallville; also features Superman's journal from the Fortress of Solitude | |||||
| Action Comics #655 | "Survival"; at Blaze's, Jerry meets Lucy and Jimmy, but Lucy walks out; Superman tracks down Lois who is a prisoner of a militia led by John Morrison's son who are using the abandoned Habitat; also features Ma Kent's photo album | |||||
| Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | collects Superman (second series) #9, 11; Superman Annual (second series) #1; Action Comics #600, 655; Adventures of Superman #445, 462, 466; and Man of Steel #2; the title is that of the then-running TV series, and the volume collects post-Crisis stories emphasizing Lois and Clark's relationship; published in 1994 | |||||
| Superman (second series) #46 | introduces Terra Man (Tobias Manning); Jade and Obsidian appear; Vinnie Edge meets Joe Morgan and Clark; Superman, Jade, Obsidian fight Terra Man who uses an exoskeleton and robot assistants; Terra escapes; Clark and Lois finally get to Smallville; Jerry Ordway & Dennis Janke inks | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #469 | Pete meets Lois; Dreadnaught (Breemmill) and Psi-phon (J'ankway) are in Smallville looking for Clark, and supposedly pursued by alien hunters (YB2 and R3B2) hired by Dreadnaught's wife Petlin, but they flee to a military base; Angelica Blaze sees Jerry and Jimmy shot by Intergang hitmen | |||||
| Action Comics #656 | Luthor learns Jerry is shot, gets bad news from Dr. Kelley; Clark meets Black Racer (Will Brown) who takes Superman to a dimensional netherworld where Superman meets the demon Blaze who plans to keep Jerry and Jim's souls | |||||
| Superman (second series) #47 | Black Racer has Gangbuster find Angelica Blaze; Luthor tells Perry that Jimmy is his son; Skyhook fight Superman; Angelica Blaze stops two Intergang hitmen who torch her nightclub | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #470 | Lana sells her family farm, accepts date from Pete; Jerry sacrifices himself to Blaze; Superman saves Jimmy and escapes; cameos by Dr. Fate and Raven; Black Racer tells Jerry he is worthy to go somewhere else | |||||
| Action Comics #657 | Luthor learns of the Toyman, kidnaps children belonging to Lexcorp executives; Toyman recalls to Mannheim how Morgan "asked" him to work with Intergang; Superman finds the Toyman in the abandoned Happyland amusement park, learns Interang has some source of technology with Apokolips after seeing Intergang thugs using a boom tube | |||||
| Superman (second series) #48 | introduces Sinbad (Davood Nassur); Davood helps his sister Soraya, a Lexcorp secretary, escape using a belt device that boosts his psionic powers, from armored men; fearing Superman won't trust them because they are Quraci-americans, Davood stuns a pursuing Superman; Luthor knows he'll die within a year, and vows to kill Superman first; in the letter column (Metropolis Mailbag), the first Baldy is awarded | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #471 | after Davood and Soraya trick Luthor into revealing his real nature, and his wish for the power belt that boosts meta-human powers, Luthor calls Maggie to say he's been attacked by a Quraci terrorist named Sinbad; Luthor meets with the D.M.T. people who were going to sell him the stolen belt, left over from the Dominator Invasion | |||||
| Action Comics #658 | Sinbad helps Superman save Metropolis from an alien ufo rigged to explode, supplied by D.M.T. to Luthor, which Luthor hopes will kill Superman; containing the U.F.O.'s explosion destroys Davood's belt | |||||
| Superman (second series) #49 | Mxyzptlk tells Luthor he is busy in the 5th dimension, so he provides another piece of red kryptonite to make Luthor equal to Superman, as long as Luthor doesn't tell that Mxyzptlk is involved; Clark sees his novel The Janus Contract remaindered; in Metropolis, Clark sees pete who asks if he can court Lana, and that Lana doesn't want to hear from Clark currently; while recapturing escapee Barrage, Superman loses his powers - after Luthor rubs the red kryptonite to activate it; Mxyzptlk teleports the powerless Superman to Luthor; a bruised Superman gets back to his apartment as Clark; Lois tells Clark her mother is dying | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #472 | at hospital, Clark talks with Lois, Lucy, Sam Lane; Lois tells how her mother has for several years been dependent on a serum supplied by Luthor to stay alive, after a chemical plant accident, and the serum is losing effectiveness; Emil's tests show Superman's body is no longer kryptonian -- he is a normal human; using a force-field belt supplied by Emil, Superman tries stopping Mammoth; Superman phones Starman (Will Payton) in Phoenix's S.T.A.R. Labs for help | |||||
| Action Comics #659 | using a suit built by Emil, Superman takes the red kryptonite from Luthor; Emil says the red kryptonite is not like green kryptonite; Starman impersonates Superman for a while, but Mxyzptlk says to Luthor it's Starman; Killgrave takes over Stryker's Island, escapes despite efforts of Starman, Superman, Guardian, Gangbuster | |||||
| Superman (second series) #50 | rumors circulate that Superman has lost his powers; Ma Kent has packed an engagement ring for Clark to use after his trip to Smallville with Lois; Lois tells Clark her mother's condition is stable; Clark proposes to Lois Lane; Luthor phones Lois to ask her to help write an autobiography; Luthor meets with Clark, telling him how green kryptonite radiation is killing him and that Mxyzptlk caused Superman's power loss; elsewhere (looking like Marvel's Impossible Man), Mxyzptlk restores Superman's powers; Mxyzptlk taunts Superman as Gross-man; Cat and Jose consider a vacation; Steve Lombard broadcasts rumors that Luthor is dying; Jimmy's mother recovers; Lois accepts; Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding, Kerry Gammill, Dennis Janke, Curt Swan, John Byrne, & Jerry Ordway art; cover-dated December 1990 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman #473 | Clark and Lois tell Jimmy they're engaged; Superman finds Guy Gardner; they look for Green Lantern Hal Jordan, who has signaled for Superman; Jordan was captured by Dreadnaught and Psi-phon with an alien in a huge buried spaceship under a military installation; cover-dated December 1990 | |||||
 | Action Comics #660 | Luthor, contemplating his own impending death due to radiation from his Kryptonite ring, takes control of an expirimental LexCorp jet (a Lex-Wing X-27, to be exact), ejecting the pilot; the jet subsequently crashes, and news of Luthor's death circles the globe as Superman finds Luthor's artificial hand in the crash wreckage; cover-dated December 1990 | ||||
 Larger Version Available | Superman: Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite | collects Superman (second series) #49-50, Action Comics #659-660, Adventures of Superman #472-473, and Starman #28; 176 pgs; cover-dated October 1996
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| Superman Annual (second series) #2 | features
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| Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography | quite good James Hudnall script; art by Eduardo Barreto and Adam Kubert; reporter Peter Sands investigates Luthor's cruel past, going back to childhood; published in 1989 | |||||
| Adventures of Superman Annual #2 | Superman, Guardian, and Dubbilex meet L.E.G.I.O.N. '90; Superman meets Lobo for the second time; continued in L.E.G.I.O.N. '90 Annual #1; no creator data entered; cover-dated 1990 | |||||
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