- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Leinil Francis Yu (credited)
- Inks
- Gerry Alanguilan (credited)
- Colors
- Dave McCaig (credited)
- Letters
- Comicraft (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Jor-El; Lara; Kal-El [Clark Kent]; Kobe Asuru; Abena Asuru
- Synopsis
- Kal-El is rocketed to Earth from the dying planet Krypton by his loving parents. 25 years later, as Clark Kent, he is in West Africa trying to find himself.
- Reprints
Pages 16 & 17 of the original story removed from this reprinting.
- Script
- Mark Waid (credited)
- Pencils
- Leinil Francis Yu (credited)
- Inks
- Gerry Alanguilan (credited)
- Colors
- Dave McCaig (credited)
- Letters
- Comicraft (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Clark Kent [Kal-El]; Kobe Asuru; Abena Asuru; Saye Kebile; Pa Kent [Jonathan Kent]; Ma Kent [Martha Kent]; Lana Lang (photo)
- Synopsis
- Clark gets involved in a tribal conflict and then returns to Smallville.
- Reprints
The Kryptonian speech bubbles on page 4 and 5 all translate as "KRYPTONIAN GIBBERISH" or a shortened version of this.
- Pencils
- Leinil Francis Yu
- Inks
- Gerry Alanguilan
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
- from Superman: Birthright (DC, 2003 series) #1 [Direct Sales] (September 2003), #2 [Direct Sales] (October 2003), #3 [Direct Sales] (November 2003), #4 [Direct Sales] (December 2003), #5 [Direct Sales] (January 2004), #6 [Direct Sales] (March 2004), #7 [Direct Sales] (April 2004), #8 [Direct Sales] (May 2004), #9 [Direct Sales] (June 2004), #10 [Direct Sales] (July 2004), #11 [Direct Sales] (August 2004), #12 [Direct Sales] (September 2004)
- in Superman: Birthright (DC, 2005 series) ([November] 2005)
Original series cover art presented three covers to a page.
- Script
- Mark Waid
- Pencils
- Leinil Francis Yu
- Inks
- Gerry Alanguilan
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Reprints
An outline of Mark Waid's proposal for the series illustrated with concept art.