Deja News - Written by Louise Simonson. Art by Scot Eaton & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
The climactic battle with Saviour! A battle royal on live television! Scorn, Jimmy Olsen, Cat Grant, Professor Hamilton, Lois Lane, Bibbo and Dirk Armstrong! Along with your host...Whitty Banter!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Rematch! - Written by Louise Simonson. Art by Scot Eaton & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
What do you want? Supervillains? We've got two teams of 'em: Mainframe and the Superman Revenge Squad! You want supporting characters? We've got Jimmy on the rebound, Simone on the warpath, and Bibbo in the ring! And as for mystery, the shadowy figure behind the new, more dangerous Revenge Squad is revealed at last.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Gang War - Written by Mark Waid & Louise Simonson. Art by Scot Eaton & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
Has the whole world gone crazy? The mysterious leader of the Revenge Squad has sent hordes of Parademons to attack the Outsiders and Lex Luthor! Plus, Boss Moxie has sent Intergang to get the secret of Superman's identity from Jimmy Olsen!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Subterranean Terror - Written by Louise Simonson. Art by Scot Eaton & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
Lois is abducted by the creeps who tried to ruin her wedding! Can Superman get her back without using his new powers? Plus, a "dragon's tooth" is discovered! What, you may ask, is a dragon's tooth? Well, start reading up on it now, because it's going to matter come the millennium, and in Superman stories in the coming months.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
The Death of Mr. Mxyzptlk - Written by Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
A special cover (plus gatefold) parodies Superman (1987 2nd Series) #75 (the "Death of Superman" issue) as Mr. Mxyzptlk meets an untimely end in this commemorative issue! With all the seriousness that befits the occasion, we regret to inform you that Superman's greatest foe, Mxyzptlk, has died. That's right, he's dead, dead, dead. Join us as some of Metropolis mourns, raising their voices in unison for a chorus of "Mxy, we hardly knew ye; in fact, we could hardly pronounce ye name." There won't be a dry eye in the house...Mxy has a squirting flower in his casket.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Synergy - Written by Louise Simonson. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
Simyan and Mokkari have been creating monsters in the black-and-white dimension, so when Ashbury, Scorn and Jimmy enter it, they're in for the shock of their lives! And Ashbury gets a gift she'll remember for the rest of her life. Ah, but what about Superman, you ask? He's got his hands full protecting the new mayor of Metropolis from Mokkari's monsters! (Try saying that with a mouthful of peanut butter!)
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Triangles - Written by Louise Simonson. Art by Paul Ryan & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
Bad things come in threes, have you noticed? Everything sinister that happens to Superman in Metropolis seems to have the unlucky number "3" attached! Our supporting cast members are all caught in emotional triangles of their own making! The only thing that doesn't come in a 3-pack is Superman -- there's only two of him! 32 pages, full color. (Note: This issue's cover connects to the cover of Action Comics (1938 DC) #742.)
Cover price $1.95.
Earth Changes - Written by Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove. Art by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke. Cover by Ron Frenz, Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke.
The beginning of the 9-part MILLENNIUM GIANTS, featuring inter-connecting covers and a storyline that affects the Superman titles, AQUAMAN, CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN, SUPERGIRL, STEEL and TEEN TITANS! They're as old as the Earth itself and at least two city-stomping-monsters tall! The Millennium Giants have come to cleanse and renew the world...by destroying everything on it! Two Supermen go up against this truly enormous menace, but do even they have enough power? 32 pages, full color. (Note: MILLENNIUM GIANTS continues this week in Aquaman (1994 3rd Series) #43 and Challengers of the Unknown (1997 DC 3rd Series) #15.)
Cover price $1.95.
End of the World! - Written by Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
A special gatefold back cover highlights this issue, where Superman Red and Superman Blue snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in the battle with the Millennium Giants! Though the Giants have seemingly fallen, the heroes of the DC Universe soon realize that a force of nature cannot truly be defeated...and that the Earth may pay the price for their victory. 32 pages, full color. (Note: The final fate of the Millennium Giants is revealed in this month's Superman (1987 2nd Series) #135.)
Cover price $1.95.
Written by Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
Part 1 of 3. A genius in intellect! A Hercules in strength! A nemesis to wrong-doers! He can leap an eighth of a mile -- and nothing less than an exploding shell can penetrate his skin! He's Superman, the great new character find of...1938? How has the Man of Steel found his way back to his "origin"? Have we restored his costume only to restore him to the Golden Age from which he sprang?
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Written by Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
The Man of Steel's "Golden Age" adventures continue in Part 2 of a 3-part story! The world of 1938 has a champion -- the 1/8-of-a-mile leaping, shells-exploding-on-his-chest Superman? He's in the Warsaw Ghetto, fighting the fascism that heralds the beginning of U.S. involvement in World War II! Are even Superman's powers enough against a world gone mad?
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
Superman is mistaken for a golem by Jews trapped with Lois Lane on a train destined for a Nazi concentration camp. Ordinary Nazi "supermen" are no match for America's man of steel, but then comes another far more powerful force, one that can literally twist time in ways beyond even Superman's control.
Co-plotted by Jon Bogdanove and Louise Simonson with text and art by Bogdanove and inks by Dennis Janke.
Cover price $1.95.
Shattered Illusions - Written by Louise Simonson. Art by Scot Eaton & Dennis Janke. Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
If Dominus is the master of reality (and he is), and can shape and reshape the entire universe to his own ends (which he can), what can he possibly want from Superman? (Good question.) How can even Superman stop Dominus from attaining the one power Dominus needs to dominate all things?
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.95.
CITY OF THE FUTURE: Part 2 of 4. The City Within - Written by Ron Marz. Art by Tom Grindberg & Tom Palmer. Cover by Paul Rivoche.
Continued from Action Comics (1938 DC) #749; continues in Superman (1987 2nd Series) #140. Superman and Ashbury accompany Scorn as he enters the bottle-city of Kandor for a family reunion with his sister and his father, the Kandorian Regent! Kandor's politics are, as always, in disarray, but a savior has stepped forward -- one who believes he can enlarge the city and liberate the population! But is he too good to be true?
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.
Creative Differences - Written by Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
It's a maniacal monster party when Simyan and Mokkari -- two of Darkseid's most diabolical minions -- are hired by Morgan Edge! His plan: To have the duo create a creature factory in the WGBS sub-basement...a factory that Edge hopes will create a rival for Superman!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.
Creative Differences - Written by Jon Bogdanove. Art and Cover by Jon Bogdanove & Dennis Janke.
It's a maniacal monster party when Simyan and Mokkari -- two of Darkseid's most diabolical minions -- are hired by Morgan Edge! His plan: To have the duo create a creature factory in the WGBS sub-basement...a factory that Edge hopes will create a rival for Superman!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.
The Iron Hand of Kindness - Written by Mark Schultz. Art and Cover by Doug Mahnke & Dennis Janke.
Superman says a last goodbye to his life as Clark Kent. Superman joins Lois and Ma and Pa Kent on the family farm in Smallville for a final family dinner before he closes the book on his Clark Kent identity. Abandoning a personal life he feels is simply too selfish to maintain, the Man of Steel attempts to get the rest of "Team Superman" -- guest stars Steel, Superboy and Supergirl -- to join him in his 24/7 vigil.
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.
A Girl and Her Robot - Written by Mark Schultz. Art by Mike Collins & Tom Nguyen. Cover by Doug Mahnke & Tom Nguyen.
Superman assigned one of his robots to the sole purpose of protecting Lois Lane. Its prime directive: To take care of her and never leave her side. But when Superman decides to deactivate the robot, he discovers that he built this particular robot a little too well, and it's not going to give up its responsibilities without a fight!
32 pages, full color. Cover price $1.99.
WRITTEN BY JOHN ROZUM AND MARK SCHULTZ. ART BY CHARLIE ADLARD, DOUG MAHNKE AND TOM NGUYEN. COVER BY MAHNKE AND NGUYEN.
A sequence written by Mark Schultz ? with art by Doug Mahnke and Tom Nguyen ? frames the oddest Superman story of the year! Over the course of his career, Superman has managed to trail, trace and track down countless fearsome foes and bring them to justice. But this story is about a guy who thinks the Man of Steel is after him and is sure that Superman is ruining his life at every turn! Is the hapless con imagining things? Or is our hero truly his "Nemesis"?
FC, 32 PG. Cover price $1.99.
The BLOODLINES Summer Annual crossover event continues from Lobo (1993) Annual #1.
In "Cutting Edge," a gigantic otherworldly shape hurtles toward the Earth and the new Man of Steel (John Henry Irons) is the first hero to encounter the insatiable extraterrestrial parasites that erupt from within. As monstrous in their grotesque proportions as in their inhuman fury, the seven parasites embark on their mysterious campaign of slaughter and terror. Tom O'Brien somehow lives through the parasites' deadly onslaught...only to find his body has strangely transformed into Edge, whose very flesh is a deadly weapon. The BLOODLINES saga continues in Batman Shadow of the Bat Annual (1993) #1.
Written by Louise Simonson, with art by Eddy Newell and Mike Barreiro. Cover by Christian Alamy.
68 pages. Cover price $2.50.
Legends of the Dead Earth. Earth is Dead. Those who once might have called it home are long scattered to the endless stars. But in that scattering, on a thousand different worlds, by a thousand different ways...Earth's greatest legends live on. The legend of Superman inspires a rebellion against an oppressive empire in "The Neverending Battle," a 38-page tale.
Script by Kurt Busiek, layouts by Paul Ryan, finishes by Joe Rubinstein. Cover by Jerry Ordway.
Cover price $2.95.
