THE EPIC EVENT THAT SHOCKED A NATION AND CHANGED SUPERMAN FOREVER! Doomsday. A creature with single-minded purpose of death and destruction. He has landed on Earth, laying waste to anything--and anyone--who dares stand in his way. The Justice League makes a valiant, but ultimately desperate, attempt to stop the unknown juggernaut. When the beast nears Metropolis, Superman answers the call to stop him. And then the unthinkable happens. The Man of Steel...is dead. Join DAN JURGENS (SUPERMAN: LOIS & CLARK), JERRY ORDWAY (ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN), LOUISE SIMONSON (SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL), and many more as they bring you the seminal moment in the history of the DC Universe and the world itself. Collects ACTION COMICS #18-20, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #496-498, SUPERMAN #73-75, SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL #17-19, and for the first time ever in a collected edition, NEWSTIME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SUPERMAN. "It's very difficult to overstate the importance of the Death ofSuperman and its following arcs...DC claims that this is the number 1 selling graphic novel of alltime. And while the story itself is dramatic and impacting, it's whatthis 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 artis incredible, and the emotion is palpable. The final fight withDoomsday is amazingly captured, and I truly enjoyed the expanding panels throughout the series until that final issue where every page was asplash-page. The story was just that big and the expanding of the art helped toreflect that. If you've ever been a Superman fan then this is amust-read." -- Jamie Sigal "One of the most famous comic-book stories of all-time, as the murderous creature known as Doomsday comescharging towards Metropolis with only Superman able to stop him. We know Doomsday means business because we see him tear apart the entireJustice League. Only Superman can save his adopted city and the woman he loves and he finds a way to save the day and kill Doomsday, but in theprocess, he gives up his own life. You don't get much more dramatic than actually killing off freakin' SUPERMAN." -- Brian Cronin " 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 bookstores 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 for The Death and Return of Superman was the publication of the somewhat surreal in-universe Newstime Magazine. It did a great job providing an in-world assessment of thesituation as a whole. Following the very basic trappings of journalismit's a nice little accoutrement that adds a different dimension to thesaga. It adds in various interviews,quotes, editorials, from allaround the DC Universe - and, as a whole works, as a pretty basicguidebook for the story. It didn't hurt that it also included differentsorts of adverts and magazine minutiae. In itself, it's a neat item andpiece of DC Universe history, even if not for the event it was producedfor - but how it was produced. A keepsake of a real world perspective of a fictional world." -- Elvis Dutan "Mike Carlin, one of the best editors this field has ever seen, deserves a tremendous round of applause for focusing us. The creative teams were like a band, a collection of diverse experiences and notions, and hewas the producer who put it all together for 'the sound.'" -- Dan Jurgens Dan Jurgens is a writer and artist most famous for creating Booster Gold as well as for being one of the main forces behind "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 forWarren 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, tele