Elseworlds: Superman Vol. 1 (New Edition)

by Stern, Roger; Chaykin, Howard; DeMatteis, J. M.; Garcia-Lopez, Jose Luis

• ISBN13: 9781779529565
• ISBN10: 1779529562
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-09-03
• Publisher: DC Comics

Summary

In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places—some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist.

The result: heroes you know…in worlds you don’t.

Superman’s Elseworlds tales are featured in this new edition of the graphic novel collection.

Featuring Superman as the Dark Knight, Kal-El raised in medieval times, Superman as the sole survivor of a nuclear Armageddon, Private Atticus Kent as an abolitionist superhero in the American Civil War, Superman the greatest athlete on Earth and Golden Age Superman at war with Mars!

Collects SUPERMAN: SPEEDINGBULLETS, SUPERMAN: KAL, SUPERMAN: DISTANT FIRES,SUPERMAN: A NATION DIVIDED, SUPERMAN, INC. and SUPERMAN:WAR OF THE WORLDS!

Author Biography

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 for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of stories about such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, the Atom, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.