Now presented in DC's premiere Absolute Edition, the story that gripped the nation and killed DC’s greatest hero, Superman! Superman meets his match in the villainous Doomsday, a force of nature whose mindset is simply destruction. Rampaging through the DC Universe, Doomsday finds himself in Metropolis and goes toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel in a bare-knuckle brawl for the future of Metropolis. With a tattered cape and bruises with every blow, will the Man of Steel fall before the might of his most ferocious villain yet? This epic Absolute Edition expands the breathtaking artwork, leaving readers feeling every punch as if they were in the battle themselves. Features an extensive gallery of over 200 pages of never-before-seen artwork, brand-new essays, scripts, retrospectives, a trading card gallery, and more! This edition is housed within a resealable black polybag marked with the bleeding S, and features a funeral box with replicas of the memorabilia included with the Superman #75 Memorial Edition, a remastered reproduction of Newstime: The Life and Death of Superman, and new in-world artifacts from the event! Collects Superman #73-75, Adventures of Superman #496-497, Justice League America #69, Action Comics #683-684, Superman: The Man of Steel #17-19, Newstime: The Life and Death of Superman #1. "It's very difficult to overstate the importance of The Death of Superman and its following arcs ... DC claims that this is the number 1 selling graphic novel of all time. And while the story itself is dramatic and impacting, it's what this collection kicks off that really elevates it to legendary status. It's something that all true Superman fans have to read at least once." -- Phillip Carson "The Death of Superman remains a seminal moment in the history of comics and the character." -- Michael Bailey "The only comic that ever made me cry; the story is told superbly, the art is incredible, and the emotion is palpable. The final fight with Doomsday is amazingly captured, and I truly enjoyed the expanding panels throughout the series until that final issue where every page was a splash-page. The story was just that big and the expanding of the art helped to reflect that. If you've ever been a Superman fan then this is a must-read." -- Jamie Sigal "Death of Superman actually got me into comics again after a lapse while in college sampling 'real life.' There will never [again] be superhero comics like that -- on the front page of the newspaper, on TV -- hunting down those issues in books stores and malls was a quest. So, there was a whole context that made it very dramatic. And no matter what people may say now, there was a palpable fear that he wouldn't come back ... very surreal and cool." -- Brad Ricca "One of the capping moments was the publication of the somewhat surreal in-universe Newstime Magazine. It did a great job providing an in-world assessment of the situation as a whole. Following the very basic trappings of journalism, it's a nice little accoutrement that adds a different dimension to the saga. It adds in various interviews, quotes, editorials, from all around the DC Universe -- and as a whole works, as a pretty basic guidebook for the story. It didn't hurt that it also included different sorts of adverts and magazine minutiae. In itself, it's a neat item and piece of DC Universe history, even if not for the event it was produced for -- but how it was produced. A keepsake of a real world perspective of a fictional world." -- Elvis Dutan Dan Jurgens is a writer and artist most famous for creating Booster Gold as well as for having designed Doomsday for "The Death of Superman." He has written and/or illustrated titles such as JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA, Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man, Thor, TEEN TITANS, AQUAMAN, DC's Tangent imprint, and the DC crossover known as ZERO HOUR. Jerry Ordway has been writing,drawing, and painting comic books professionally since 1980 -specifically on such titles as ALL-STAR SQUADRON, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, SUPERMAN, POWER OF SHAZAM, WildStar, Fantastic Four, Avengers, Tom Strong, WONDER WOMAN, The Messenger, and Proton . Louise Simonson began her career in comics as an editor for Warren Publications, and went on to work at both Marvel Comics and DC, where she garnered acclaim for her writing on X-Factor, Power Pack, New Mutants, SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL, STEEL, and WORLD OF WARCRAFT. She is the author of the graphic novel Snow White and the Seven Robots . Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and the Internet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy to flash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of the Superman series, and has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and the Avengers for Marvel. His novelization, The Death and L