Death of superman how much is it worth

That huge decline in overall unit sales inevitably led to a severe consolidation in not only the comics retailing community, but also in the number of publishers and distributors. Next week, I'll return to the subject of distribution by touching upon Marvel's disastrous foray into self-distribution, and how that ultimately led to Diamond becoming the monopoly supplier of new comics to the Direct Market.

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Newsletter Latest Newsletter. Back to home page. Denver, CO Dolores Winters proves an interesting villain and isn't playing about when she kills someone in cold blood. Lois gets caught by an exploding shell and falls unconscious, allowing Superman to grab one of the shells and hurl it back at the bombarding battery.

While investigating the war, Kent finds that Lex Luthor is behind it. Lois Lane is captured, leaving Superman to find her and bring an end to the conflict. By destroying the floating dirigible, Superman breaks the mechanism that keeps it in the air, sending it crashing to the ground. It is also the first issue to feature the DC bullet on the cover. Once again, the Ultra-Humanite is causing havoc in Metropolis. Clark Kent investigates a man who is covered in "purple, rotting blotches," and with the help of Professor Henry Travers, they discover that the purple plague from the middle ages has returned, and is causing the population of Metropolis to suffer as a result.

Travers has a crisis of confidence, but thanks to a rousing speech by Superman, he manages to find a way to fix his earlier errors with a cure for the purple plague and helps to save the city, healing everyone who was affected by the disease. Not one to shy away from serious matters, but Superman 2 starts with former boxing heavyweight champion Larry Trent from committing suicide.

Superman sees him falling from the bridge and is there to save his life. Larry reveals how he lost faith in the people around him and himself after his manager drugs him before the fight in which he lost. In a way to bring Larry Trent back to the top, Superman disguises himself as the champ and fights his way back to the title match, where Trent steps back inside of the ring.

Despite some attempted interference by his former manager and the mob where Superman stops without breaking a sweat , Larry Trent manages to win the title back. In May with a CGC grade of 7. Although Superman isn't on the cover, it features the second appearance of the Man of Steel.

His full design wasn't iconic at that point, and he went through a phase of wearing different colored boots, with him donning blue footwear in his appearance. Before Lois is executed as a spy, Superman manages to save her and finds out that the war is being fomented by a munitions manufacturer led by a man called Emil Norvell.

He is completely unidimensional and is simply a killing machine. His powers? Pure brutal and unmatched strength. Not even the Justice League although a very, very lame ensemble of heroes in this case could stop him. Everything relies on Superman. The writing is nothing special, and it has the tell-rather- One of the most iconic moments in the DC Universe and the title says it all. The writing is nothing special, and it has the tell-rather-than-show thing going on.

Let the artwork do its job, right? Besides that, the artwork is pretty decent to be honest. Feb 22, Greta is Erikasbuddy rated it liked it. But am I impressed? Not really because I know Superman is not really dead. I think I was in 10th grade when Superman died. Then I think it was the very next year that they brought him back I've always liked the idea of Superman but never have been too thrilled with him.

The Death of Superman was just that. It was ok but I wasn't thrilled. I was shocked to see that Lex Luthor had been killed off a while ago I have no clue how and his son was now in charge of LexCorp or LuthorCorp they have both in Smallville lolz and had a massive mane of red locks I thought maybe Lex stumbled upon Rogaine at first. I had no clue that was Junior till it was mentioned.

And Lex jr. The dialogue was pretty simple and Superman let loose one cuss word. The beating up Superman in my opinion was pretty tame. It didn't make me cringe like my husband said it would. Although there is a part where a bird is crushed and a deer is choked. I got excited over that. Before you call PETA they were cartoon animals and I'm sure they are back to happily frolicking on the piece of paper they were drawn on.

I just liked it that they pushed the envelope. I'm odd After reading the comic I started to wonder how they would have done Superman's death today. My husband rolled his eyes at me and told me it wasn't that long ago. Like almost 20 years. Look how far we have come. We're not afraid to show hamburger pounded beefcakes. While the Superman of yesterday didn't wow me I would read it again if it was ever redone View all 36 comments.

Aug 11, James DeSantis rated it it was ok. One major advancement for comics after the 90's is writers decided to write characters like actual people. Before that we had a lot of "My Golly G we gotta stop the bad guys! This "Death of Superman" arc is known as one of the biggest things DC ever done. So what's it about? Well One major advancement for comics after the 90's is writers decided to write characters like actual people.

Well you got Doomsday landing on earth and hitting trees and trucks. Then the JLA comes over and is like "Hey, buddy, we gonna stop you! Then they each get beat to a pulp while Superman is doing a interview on TV. So you got Superman just chilling, talking about how he'll always protect us, while his friends are getting their shit wrecked. It's kind of funny. THEN Superman hears of the events and goes charging over. The brawl begins and Superman vs Doomsday come down to a fight of their lives!!!

Just watching all the heroes getting beat to the ground while trying their best is kind of terrifying and fun to watch. Kind of fucked up for me to say huh? What I didn't like: So yeah. Pretty much everything in this feels rushed along. Doomsday comes down to earth, beats people up, kills superman.

That's the whole plot. Over pages and that's the best they came up with. No fucking joke it's some of the worst I've ever read. Also Superman is kind of a dick in this and his ideas and mindset aren't what I'd consider superman worthy. Overall this is a big old meh. I read this when I was young and remembered not enjoying it.

Figured maybe when I'm older and read more Superman I'd enjoy it more. THis was pretttttty bad. Worth reading through to get his death but nothing worth mentioning. Jul 20, Ed Erwin rated it did not like it Shelves: little-free-library , comics. Punch punch punch. Kick kick kick. Fight fight fight. That is all there is.

One fight scene after another. If you like action scenes, there's plenty here for you, and they seem well done. I just don't care. Well, at least he's finally dead now and we won't have to read any more stories about Superman! Jul 31, John Yelverton rated it it was amazing. This book made me cry for days after I read it. Heroes are not supposed to die!

Jun 20, Jake rated it liked it Shelves: fiction , graphic-novels. It may be grossly unfair, on a literary level, to grade The Death of Superman as a graphic novel. More than any previous compilation-turned graphic novel, the serial nature of this publication seems explicit. That being said, DC Comics ultimately packaged and sold this multi-part story as a single work, which is how I encountered it this weekend.

Special thanks to the group of local public libraries that diligently engage in inter-library loan, making it possible for me to read this work at no c It may be grossly unfair, on a literary level, to grade The Death of Superman as a graphic novel.

Special thanks to the group of local public libraries that diligently engage in inter-library loan, making it possible for me to read this work at no charge in one of its delightfully color-saturated editions. The title of The Death of Superman is also a good summation of the plot.

I am not cynical about this, sincerely. Comic books are forever reinventing and re-adapting their icons. Superman the icon was never in jeopardy, just this particular incarnation of him in the comic book realm. And I think periodically killing off our superheroes is a perfectly worthwhile narrative experiment. There are a handful of highly suspenseful moments, in the context of a story whose title is a wanton spoiler. At one point, Superman has to choose between rescuing a victim trapped in a fire or completing the more tactically important task of keeping Doomsday busy.

Another gripping moment, late in the story, involves Lois Lane trying to convince Superman not to kill Doomsday--because killing is not what Superman does. What a shame the authors wait until the final pages to hastily address what could have been the paramount moral question of the novel. The creators of The Death of Superman do not spend significant time, or emphasis, on character study. If this had been a graphic novel in genesis, perhaps they would have.

But this is actually a high action, multi-part story originally told in monthly comic book form. With token exceptions like those mentioned above, it is a single relentless action sequence. In this respect, I found it grandly successful. Yet, it hits with all of the intellectual nuance of the last 30 minutes of any given superhero flick. Not especially.

They may have supplied a proper aftermath in the monthly single magazine format, but not in the graphic novel form in which this story now exists. Like I indicated earlier, The Death of Superman is all setup and execution of a single story beat. And the setup is lots and lots of fighting and chasing.

There is a TV interview sequence spliced into the battle. It plays as overt exposition, with all of the charm of a just-the-facts inverted pyramid style. Nothing subtle or gray here. Still I am glad I read this work. I was entertained. Superman has always been a messiah story, rightfully so. Messiahs usually die. Their mission seemingly demands it. When this happens, something that could have been thoughtful winds up feeling merely sensational.

In the context of a proper sendoff, that seems a missed opportunity to say the least Aug 29, Scott rated it did not like it. That's it. I'm totally serious. I mean come on!

This was the Man of Steel. The Man of Tomorrow! Krypton's ichiban ass-kicking muchacho!! And the best death story they can give him is "a big monster punched him really hard"?!?

And Lex Luthor's like: "Punching him! Of course! Why didn't I think of that!? The JLA takes on the monster Doomsday first, but they fail. Superman is next. He kinda keeps the guy in a holding pattern, but he essentially fails.

Supergirl shows up for a minute but she gets punched so hard she turns into goo. I'm not sure what was up with that. And then Superman fights again. The monster's origin and motivation are apparently not important because they got left out of the story. All we know is he is very strong and very mean.

A big mean evil strong thing with stalagmite acne. Yes, Superman fights with everything he has to save Metropolis. Yes, he's a big damn hero. It's all very noble, and that's precisely why a story about punching to death really doesn't cut the freaking mustard, dudes.

View 2 comments. Nov 27, Nicolo rated it liked it Shelves: collected-comics. At one time, this was the biggest event in comics. That bubble busted eventually, driving the entire comic industry to its knees. Superman returned in another crossover event, but it proved that DC Comics was willing to gamble on such a risky gambit.

At that tim At one time, this was the biggest event in comics. It was thought that Superman was becoming stale and losing relevance. Looking back, such a stunt was necessary to jumpstart interest in the character. As for these collected comics, they were pretty standard, featuring bland DC art of the art, as the best artists were on Image or Marvel. The last issue though was pretty interesting, as it was a series of splash pages that culminated in a three page spread featuring the broken and battered body of Superman being cradled by Lois Lane in a Pieta like pose.

I got this copy as it was available at an affordable price, and I just wanted to reminisce when truth, justice and hope died in an effort to boost sales.

One of the most boring and overrated dc Story!! When I came to know that this book is considered as one of the classic and beloved book in DC readers, I knew it's going to disappoint me as other classic dc comics did. This is one of the most boring book I have read so far.

Doomsday appears out of no where and starts destruction in city, superman comes and fights doomsday, after delivering punches to each other, they both dies! That's this book is in nutshell. No explanation of anything, no One of the most boring and overrated dc Story!! No explanation of anything, no good characters, boring dialogues and dated artwork.

Overall It was very quick read but all the time I was getting bored and thinking about my next read. If you have read the title of this book, it means you have read the whole book. There is no need to lose your brain cells by reading the whole book so better avoid it!

Dec 23, Kirk rated it it was amazing. Most comic book fans know the story. So they set out to kill Superman boost sales. But hey, DC had a bunch of titles that were selling like shit cakes dredged from a city gutter, so they decided to have the story arc cut across every shitty title they had in a desperate attempt to boost sales.

And it worke Most comic book fans know the story. And it worked. Most of us are here to appreciate books for the plot, characters, stylistic rendering, etc. I think the tactics were cheap, but effective. And if you think this is the low of comic book marketing, remember Marvel recently offered comic book retailers limited edition comics if they agreed to destroy DC's universe reboot comics. THAT is low.

As for the story, I didn't care that the authors failed to elaborate on where our antagonist came from. Someone was out to destroy everything. That was enough for me. If someone breaks into my home and threatens to take me out, I'm probably not going to be too concerned about their origin story. Leaving the details out added to the character's mystery and his appeal.

There were some abysmal moments in this story, true. But the final showdown is one of the greatest in comic book history. Everyone was always pissed about how invincible Superman was, and finally we got a glimpse at his vulnerability. Superman became three dimensional for a split second, and right as we were about to savor that, he fucking died.