- Script
- ?
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- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A young boy has rocketed into downtown Metropolis.
On dustjacket flap over inside front cover.
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
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- Adam Kubert
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- ?
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- Non; General Zod; Ursa
- Reprints
On endpapers. Illustration taken from cover of Action Comics Annual (DC, 1987 series) #11.
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- ?
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- Adam Kubert
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- Adam Kubert
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- ?
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- Superman
Frontispiece. Modified version of illustration from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #846?
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- ?
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- Adam Kubert
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- Adam Kubert
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- Dave Stewart
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- typeset
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- superhero
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- Superman; Chris Kent
Title Page. Illustration from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #845.
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- Marc McClure
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- Adam Kubert (illustration)
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- Adam Kubert (illustration)
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- Dave Stewart
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- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Before I go any further...Christopher Reeve is, and always will be, Superman.
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- Superman
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Introduction. Illustration from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #844.
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- ?
A detail from the same illustration used as the frontispiece.
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
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- Superman
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- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
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- Adam Kubert
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- ?
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- Jor-El
A detail from a panel from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #846.
- Script
- Geoff Johns; Richard Donner
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Rob Leigh
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Jor-El [simulation]; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Chris Kent [Lor-Zod] (intro, not yet named); Sarge Steel; Lois Lane; Lex Luthor (cameo); Jonathan Kent (cameo); Martha Kent (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Superman sees a ship landing and stops it from crashing. Opening it, he finds a boy. He takes the boy to the Department of Metahuman Affairs and its director, Sarge Steel, where the boy shows super-strength and speaks Kryptonese. The two talk and then Superman tells him he'll be back. In the morning, Superman finds the building empty. He goes to the Pentagon, and breaks in to confront Sarge Steel. Steel admits the boy is being transferred. Superman uses human means to stop the convoy, and spirits the boy away, taking him to his adoptive parents for advice on how to raise a boy from Krypton.
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- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude
The Kryptonese dialog on page 11 is translated as follows: "I'M HUNGRY." The Kryptonese dialog on the next two pages matches the subtitles.
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- typeset
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- superhero
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- Bizarro Superman
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- ?
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- ?
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- ?
A detail from the same illustration used as the frontispiece.
- Script
- Geoff Johns; Richard Donner
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Rob Leigh
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Jor-El (simulation); Chris Kent [Lor-Zod]; Lois Lane; Jonathan Kent (cameo); Martha Kent (cameo); Lex Luthor (cameo); Sarge Steel (cameo); Jimmy Olsen (cameo); Bizarro; General Zod (introduction, cameo); Ursa (introduction, cameo); Non (introduction, cameo)
- Synopsis
- Luthor dispatches Bizarro to kidnap the Kryptonian boy.
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- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude
The name Christopher is probably an homage to Christopher Reeve, who starred as Superman in the "Superman II" movie, which much of this story's elements are derived from. The Kryptonese text on the ship on pages 20 and 21 is translated as: "OPEN".
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; General Zod; Ursa; Non
- Reprints
- Script
- Geoff Johns; Richard Donner
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Rob Leigh
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Jor-El [simulation]; General Zod; Ursa; Non; Chris Kent [Lor-Zod]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Jax-Ur (cameo); Quex-Ul (flashback, cameo); Tor-An (flashback, cameo); Nadira Va-Dim (flashback, cameo); Az-Rel (flashback, cameo); Mon-El (cameo); Perry White (cameo); Lombard (cameo); Ron Troupe (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Zod and the Phantom Zone criminals attack Superman and attempt to recover Chris.
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- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude; Phantom Zone; signal watch
The first two pages parallel the first two pages of Action Comics #844, but with Zod in place of Superman. The Kryptonese text on the ships on pages 16 and 17 is translated as: "OPEN".
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert ? (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; General Zod; Ursa; Chris Kent [Lor-Zod]
- Reprints
- Script
- Geoff Johns; Richard Donner
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- Dave Stewart
- Letters
- Rob Leigh
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Mon-El; General Zod; Ursa; Chris Kent [Lor-Zod]; Dev-Em (introduction); Lois Lane; Lex Luthor; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El] (cameo); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (cameo); Wonder Woman (cameo); Power Girl (cameo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo); Batman (cameo); Superman Revenge Squad [Bizarro; Metallo; Parasite] (introduction, cameo)
- Synopsis
- Superman's trying to adjust to being in the Phantom Zone, and sees the events back on Earth. Zod, Ursa, and Non have Chris, and Supergirl and the Justice League are fighting the Kryptonians. Mon-El (a friend Superman projected into the zone years ago to save him from lead poisoning) appears, and helps Superman adjust to the zone. Mon-El describes how it started, with Zod finding Fort Rozz, a prison that had been accidentally transported in when a projector exploded during a riot started by Dev-Em. As the circumstances were unusual, the fort is actually solid, and people can be normal inside of it, and time passes. That's how Zod and Ursa had their son Lor-Zod (Chris), but they abused him. Superman goes into the fort, confronts Dev-Em, and is about to be knifed, but Mon-El joins and rescues him. But Mon-El is affected by the lead poisoning again, so Superman has to push him back into the regular zone. Superman finds another ship, and launches it, leaving the zone and returning to Earth. He arrives to find a destroyed Metropolis, with Kryptonian crystals growing in one area. The defeated heroes are being brought there, and Ursa wants to kill Lois, but Zod wants to find out why Superman "settled" for her. However, Lor-Zod attacks Zod with his heat vision to stop him, as that's what Superman would do. Zod then says he needs to remind Lor-Zod of who is father is. Superman knows he can't confront the criminals directly, so he finds Luthor, and "asks" to borrow his anti-Kryptonian weapons. Luthor laughs, and has Parasite, Bizarro, and Metallo attack Superman.
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- Keywords
- Fort Rozz (introduction); Phantom Zone
The Kryptonese text on the button on page 12 is translated as: "LAUNCH".
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- Adam Kubert (signed)
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- ?
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- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Non; General Zod; Ursa
- Reprints
- Script
- Geoff Johns; Richard Donner
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- Edgar Delgado
- Letters
- Rob Leigh
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Lex Luthor; Superman Revenge Squad [Bizarro; Metallo; Parasite]; General Zod; Ursa; Chris Kent [Lor-Zod]; Non; Jax-Ur; Lois Lane; Martian Manhunter (cameo); Red Tornado [John Smith] (cameo); Wonder Woman (cameo); Supergirl [Kara Zor-El] (cameo); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (cameo); Hawkgirl [Kendra Saunders] (cameo); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (cameo); Power Girl (cameo); Perry White (cameo); Jimmy Olsen (cameo); Jor-El (hologram); Mon-El (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Superman and the Revenge Squad discuss the Phantom Zone criminals' takeover of Metropolis. Meanwhile the army attacks the criminals. Zod captures their leader, and wants to use him to pass along a message, that Zod will kill anyone that doesn't immediately obey him, starting with his own son, Lor-Zod (Chris) right now. But before he can, Superman rescues Chris, and the fight is on. The squad takes out several of the criminals, while Superman fights Zod. Luthor sneaks into their headquarters, killing a criminal, and starts working on one of the Phantom Zone ships. Superman rescues Lois and the captured heroes, and continues to fight Zod, but Chris intervenes. Luthor reverses the warp drive on the ship to draw the criminals back to the zone, but before he can set it to take Superman too, Lois crowns him hard. The criminals are drawn back, as is Chris, but Superman hangs onto him. The zone won't close, though, so Chris sacrifices himself to close the zone. Later, Superman has Mon-El search the zone, but Mon-El can't find Chris.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude; Phantom Zone
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- ?
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- ?
- Colors
- ?
A detail from the same illustration used as the frontispiece.
- Pencils
- Andy Kubert (signed)
- Inks
- Jesse Delperdang (signed)
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- Moose Baumann (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert (signed)
- Inks
- Adam Kubert (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Lex Luthor; Parasite; Bizarro; Metallo
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Superman
Illustration from the cover of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #851.
- Pencils
- Adam Kubert
- Inks
- Adam Kubert
- Colors
- ?
- Characters
- Bizarro Superman
On endpapers. Illustration taken from cover of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #845.
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- ?
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- typeset
- Genre
- biography
On dustjacket flap over inside back cover. Same text as interior Bio sequence.