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Christopher Reeve passed away today...this is one of the saddest days ever
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Big Jim. He is killed by a creatur named Doomsday
On the last page of several comics prior to Superman: the Man of Steel #18, a gloved fist was shown battering a steel wall, with the phrase "Doomsday is coming!" in a caption. In that issue, Superman fights the Underworlders while a hulking figure in a green suit rampages through a pastoral field.
The story continues in Justice League of America #69, where the Justice League (Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Maxima, Fire, Ice, and Bloodwynd) respond to a call from a smashed big rig, and follow the trail of destruction until the unknown creature destroys Blue Beetle's aircraft. The League attempts to stop him, but he systematically takes them apart, finishing by punching Booster Gold into the stratosphere, where Superman catches him, and Booster declares "It's like Doomsday is here!"
In Superman #74, the Man of Steel arrives on the scene, having cut an interview with Cat Grant short in JLA #69, and he and the able-bodied League members follow the threat to the home of a single mother and her two children, where their battle with "Doomsday" destroys the house. The League attacks Doomsday with all their energy-projection powers, but do not harm Doomsday. Doomsday takes them out, causes the house to explode into flames, and then leaps away. Superman follows, having to ignore the son's cries for help if he must stop Doomsday.
In The Adventures of Superman #497, Superman throws Doomsday to the bottom of a lake, slowing him down long enough for Superman to go back and save the mother and her baby daughter. Doomsday escapes from the silty lake bed, he and Superman tear up a city street, and then Maxima involves herself. Lois Lane pulls Jimmy Olsen from his "Turtle Boy" show taping to cover the battle while Lex Luthor Jr. dissuades Supergirl from joining the fight. The fight goes into a gas station, where Maxima rips a light post from the ground; the sparks from the wiring meet the leaking gasoline and blow the station up. Guardian arrives after Doomsday leaves, finding Superman and Maxima, and offers his aid.
In Superman in Action Comics #684, Superman follows Doomsday's trail of destruction over a few states starting from the mid-west to a LexMart, where Doomsday sees a commercial for "War Bash 9000." It distracts him long enough for Superman to attack. The battle continues across a few more states heading towards Metropolis. The Daily Planet helicopter arrives, and Lex Jr. convinces Supergirl that she's needed in Metropolis while Superman is fighting. Doomsday sees a road sign for Metropolis
connects it to the War Bash commercial, but Superman throws him in the opposite direction, where he lands on the mountain housing the Cadmus Project. They brawl throughout Habitat, bringing most of it down. When Guardian arrives, Doomsday knocks them down and leaps toward Metropolis.
In Superman: the Man of Steel #19, their brawl sends Doomsday into Underworld, where Doomsday ruptures a gas main, and then an electrical main, which levels Newtown. At one point he kocks Doomsday out and then tries to help some firemen put out a building that is on fire. A fireman looks at him and tells him to sit and breath from an oxygen tank. Superman tries to ignore him and the Fireman orders him to sit down and get some oxygen. At this point Doomsday gets up again and the battle is on again. Supergirl goes to aid Superman, but a single punch from Doomsday knocks her to the ground, her form destabilized and reverted to her purple Matrix form. Professor Hamilton and Bibbo shoot Doomsday with a laser cannon, but it does not harm him. Metropolis SCU open fire on Doomsday, but again, he is not harmed. Superman returns to the fight. By this time Superman is a big wound.
In Superman #75, Superman and Doomsday lay into each other with everything they have. Superman looks inside and realizes that if he is going to put Doomsday down, he needs to give it all he has, which isn't much left. Superman figures out how to hurt Doomsday - his bony protrusions are extensions of his skeleton - Doomsday stands up, and they battle again. He looks at Lois with a look that tells her that he knows he is not going to come out of this alive. Just as Lois figures out what the look Superman just gave her means, both he and Doomsday deliver one final blow to each other that is so powerful that the glass from buildings for blocks shatter from the impact. It knocks everyone to the ground. When Lois stands up she sees Doomsday down, but so is Superman, and the battle has made a huge swath acroos many states, and alot of damage to the eastern half of the United States. Whole towns in the path of the battle have been torn apart. Metropolis is in ruin and half of the people in the town have pretty much been killed or burried in the rubble of the city's ruin. Lois runs to Superman and places him on her lap. He asks her if he killed Doomsday. She tells him he did. He tells her he has always loved her, and then dies in her arms.
The above comic is the one that he dies, and I believe it is the one that came out on October 10, 1992.
The paramedics on the scene try to revive him, but it is no use.
They take him to the nearest hospital where Professor Hamilton, who had successfully saved Superman a year or two prior from a kryptonite bullet, is brought in to help. But an hour later he emerges and tells the world that Superman was pronounced dead 10 minutes earlier. The entire world mourns. The reporter who is the equivalent of Dan rather cries while giving the news.
Funeral for a Friend and the Reign of the Supermen
The following funeral featured many of Superman's fellow heroes and friends, including most of the Justice League of America. At one point in the procession following Superman's castket as it is being taken by a horse through the ruin of downtown Metropolis, a terrorist tries to take advantage the situation and is about to throw a bomb at of all the Presidents of all the worlds Countrie's, who are all walking in one part of the procession. Just as he is about to, Batman, who makes a rare apearance in the daylight, grabs the guy and is about to beat the "F" out of him. He tells the guy "If this were my town you would be dead. But this isn't my town and I have to play by my dead friends rules." He ties the guy up and leaves him hanging from a pole I believe. A mausoleum was built in Metropolis in his honor. Furthermore, stories after the funeral often dealt with the emotions felt by the general public as well as specific characters entwined within Superman's world, including Lois Lane (Who tries to maintain her composure until she gets home to the downtown condo that she and Clark call home and looses it), Clark Kent's parents (Who don't go to the funeral as they need to maintain the illusion that Clark Kent and Superman are two different people, and are forced to watch their sons funeral from Smallville. Pa suffers a heart attack a day or two after from the stress and dies), and even a number of supervillains (Lobo is pissed that Superman was killed as he wanted to be the one to kill him). The Cadmus Project stole Superman's body, but Supergirl helped recover it.
"The Death of Superman" brought in millions of readers to DC Comics, despite the entirety of the story being intertwined through numerous different comic series, including Action Comics, Superman, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Adventures of Superman, among others. The cover of Superman #75 became a famous image: Superman's tattered cape wrapped around a pole, marking a makeshift grave.
Because of Superman's place as an American icon, his death became a multimedia event, covered by newspapers and televised reports. Certain prints of Superman #75 contained a black armband with the familiar "S" symbol adorning it. Many comics fans publicly wore the armband immediately following Superman's death, including, perhaps most famously, Jay Leno.
On the last page of several comics prior to Superman: the Man of Steel #18, a gloved fist was shown battering a steel wall, with the phrase "Doomsday is coming!" in a caption. In that issue, Superman fights the Underworlders while a hulking figure in a green suit rampages through a pastoral field.
The story continues in Justice League of America #69, where the Justice League (Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Maxima, Fire, Ice, and Bloodwynd) respond to a call from a smashed big rig, and follow the trail of destruction until the unknown creature destroys Blue Beetle's aircraft. The League attempts to stop him, but he systematically takes them apart, finishing by punching Booster Gold into the stratosphere, where Superman catches him, and Booster declares "It's like Doomsday is here!"
In Superman #74, the Man of Steel arrives on the scene, having cut an interview with Cat Grant short in JLA #69, and he and the able-bodied League members follow the threat to the home of a single mother and her two children, where their battle with "Doomsday" destroys the house. The League attacks Doomsday with all their energy-projection powers, but do not harm Doomsday. Doomsday takes them out, causes the house to explode into flames, and then leaps away. Superman follows, having to ignore the son's cries for help if he must stop Doomsday.
In The Adventures of Superman #497, Superman throws Doomsday to the bottom of a lake, slowing him down long enough for Superman to go back and save the mother and her baby daughter. Doomsday escapes from the silty lake bed, he and Superman tear up a city street, and then Maxima involves herself. Lois Lane pulls Jimmy Olsen from his "Turtle Boy" show taping to cover the battle while Lex Luthor Jr. dissuades Supergirl from joining the fight. The fight goes into a gas station, where Maxima rips a light post from the ground; the sparks from the wiring meet the leaking gasoline and blow the station up. Guardian arrives after Doomsday leaves, finding Superman and Maxima, and offers his aid.
In Superman in Action Comics #684, Superman follows Doomsday's trail of destruction over a few states starting from the mid-west to a LexMart, where Doomsday sees a commercial for "War Bash 9000." It distracts him long enough for Superman to attack. The battle continues across a few more states heading towards Metropolis. The Daily Planet helicopter arrives, and Lex Jr. convinces Supergirl that she's needed in Metropolis while Superman is fighting. Doomsday sees a road sign for Metropolis
connects it to the War Bash commercial, but Superman throws him in the opposite direction, where he lands on the mountain housing the Cadmus Project. They brawl throughout Habitat, bringing most of it down. When Guardian arrives, Doomsday knocks them down and leaps toward Metropolis.
In Superman: the Man of Steel #19, their brawl sends Doomsday into Underworld, where Doomsday ruptures a gas main, and then an electrical main, which levels Newtown. At one point he kocks Doomsday out and then tries to help some firemen put out a building that is on fire. A fireman looks at him and tells him to sit and breath from an oxygen tank. Superman tries to ignore him and the Fireman orders him to sit down and get some oxygen. At this point Doomsday gets up again and the battle is on again. Supergirl goes to aid Superman, but a single punch from Doomsday knocks her to the ground, her form destabilized and reverted to her purple Matrix form. Professor Hamilton and Bibbo shoot Doomsday with a laser cannon, but it does not harm him. Metropolis SCU open fire on Doomsday, but again, he is not harmed. Superman returns to the fight. By this time Superman is a big wound.
In Superman #75, Superman and Doomsday lay into each other with everything they have. Superman looks inside and realizes that if he is going to put Doomsday down, he needs to give it all he has, which isn't much left. Superman figures out how to hurt Doomsday - his bony protrusions are extensions of his skeleton - Doomsday stands up, and they battle again. He looks at Lois with a look that tells her that he knows he is not going to come out of this alive. Just as Lois figures out what the look Superman just gave her means, both he and Doomsday deliver one final blow to each other that is so powerful that the glass from buildings for blocks shatter from the impact. It knocks everyone to the ground. When Lois stands up she sees Doomsday down, but so is Superman, and the battle has made a huge swath acroos many states, and alot of damage to the eastern half of the United States. Whole towns in the path of the battle have been torn apart. Metropolis is in ruin and half of the people in the town have pretty much been killed or burried in the rubble of the city's ruin. Lois runs to Superman and places him on her lap. He asks her if he killed Doomsday. She tells him he did. He tells her he has always loved her, and then dies in her arms.
The above comic is the one that he dies, and I believe it is the one that came out on October 10, 1992.
The paramedics on the scene try to revive him, but it is no use.
They take him to the nearest hospital where Professor Hamilton, who had successfully saved Superman a year or two prior from a kryptonite bullet, is brought in to help. But an hour later he emerges and tells the world that Superman was pronounced dead 10 minutes earlier. The entire world mourns. The reporter who is the equivalent of Dan rather cries while giving the news.
Funeral for a Friend and the Reign of the Supermen
The following funeral featured many of Superman's fellow heroes and friends, including most of the Justice League of America. At one point in the procession following Superman's castket as it is being taken by a horse through the ruin of downtown Metropolis, a terrorist tries to take advantage the situation and is about to throw a bomb at of all the Presidents of all the worlds Countrie's, who are all walking in one part of the procession. Just as he is about to, Batman, who makes a rare apearance in the daylight, grabs the guy and is about to beat the "F" out of him. He tells the guy "If this were my town you would be dead. But this isn't my town and I have to play by my dead friends rules." He ties the guy up and leaves him hanging from a pole I believe. A mausoleum was built in Metropolis in his honor. Furthermore, stories after the funeral often dealt with the emotions felt by the general public as well as specific characters entwined within Superman's world, including Lois Lane (Who tries to maintain her composure until she gets home to the downtown condo that she and Clark call home and looses it), Clark Kent's parents (Who don't go to the funeral as they need to maintain the illusion that Clark Kent and Superman are two different people, and are forced to watch their sons funeral from Smallville. Pa suffers a heart attack a day or two after from the stress and dies), and even a number of supervillains (Lobo is pissed that Superman was killed as he wanted to be the one to kill him). The Cadmus Project stole Superman's body, but Supergirl helped recover it.
"The Death of Superman" brought in millions of readers to DC Comics, despite the entirety of the story being intertwined through numerous different comic series, including Action Comics, Superman, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Adventures of Superman, among others. The cover of Superman #75 became a famous image: Superman's tattered cape wrapped around a pole, marking a makeshift grave.
Because of Superman's place as an American icon, his death became a multimedia event, covered by newspapers and televised reports. Certain prints of Superman #75 contained a black armband with the familiar "S" symbol adorning it. Many comics fans publicly wore the armband immediately following Superman's death, including, perhaps most famously, Jay Leno.
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"But most will remember this sad day as the day the proudest, most noble man they ever knew finally fell. For those who loved him -- one who would call him husband, one who would be his pal, or those who would call him son -- this is the darkest day they could ever imagine. They raised him to be a hero: to know the value of sacrifice, to know the value of life. And for those who served with Superman in the protection of all life comes the shock of a failure: the weight of being too late to help. For a city to live, a man had given his all and more. But it's too late. For this is the day that a Superman died." - Superman #75, 1992 (written by Dan Jurgens)
Due to popular support of strong sales, he was brought back to life. The computer program/machine called "the eradicator" had brought him to the Fortress of Solitude and placed him in a device desighned to re-generate him. However, whenever he would get a little regernerated, the machine would take his powers. There was a glitch in its system and it took the form of Superman in a black suit. It was designed to protect him, but it got all screwed up and mistook it as to replace him. When the eradicator was away from the Fortress long enough, Superman got enough power that he was revived. Upon being revived he asked the fortress to show him what was going on in the world. He was shown news repots of how the world went into chaos after his death. How a new religion sprung up worldwide called the "Superman" religion, and its members wore blue capes with the red and rellow "S" symbol on it. This religion was causing problems with people who weren't in it's religion, and even between factions in the religion. Superman just hook his head at how the world had become screwed up. The eradicator came back to the fortress and he battled and defeated him. he had some power but not much. He couldnt fly. But after a bit of being in the Sun he regained his powers back. In the end when he and Lois share their first moment alone since his death in their apartment, she tells him she fells stupid that she never thought just to leave him in the sun for a bit. After a night with Lois, the next morning he did his first city flyover and as he did, people cheered him and yelled that they were glad he was back. Doomsday was shot out into outer space, but once in space he regained consciousness.
For any of you in Hawaii. There will be a Christopher Reeve canlelight vigil
HAWAII CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR CHRISTOPHER REEVE ON TUESDAY
For those Hawaii residents and visitors who couldn't attend the touching candlelight vigil held in memory of Christopher Reeve in Metropolis Illinois, Hawaii will have its own tribute in Waikiki on Tuesday, October 19th. We encourage everyone to attend. CLICK HERE to find out more about the memorial and for exact location.
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HAWAII CANDLELIGHT VIGIL FOR CHRISTOPHER REEVE ON TUESDAY
For those Hawaii residents and visitors who couldn't attend the touching candlelight vigil held in memory of Christopher Reeve in Metropolis Illinois, Hawaii will have its own tribute in Waikiki on Tuesday, October 19th. We encourage everyone to attend. CLICK HERE to find out more about the memorial and for exact location.
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There's actually a city called Metropolis? 
Here's the reason why I think Christopher Reeve will always be remembered as the best Superman: he gave a lot more thought to Clark Kent than any of the other actors. Dean Cain (apart from being a mediocre, two-bit actor anyway) played Clark as Superman in normal clothes. Apart from his attire there was no distinction between the two characters.
Chris Reeve took three inches off his height with the stoop, he gave Clark a completely different voice by pitching it higher and adding a stutter and his whole body language was different. The hair was also different between the two characters, but that was never really down to Reeve so much as it was the forethought of Richard Donner and the costume department.
George Reeves was an actor of a much older generation, so his woodenness can't be compared to Cain's. Every actor in Reeves's day was that way. Dean Cain just sucked generally, and the difference between him and a true actor of Chris Reeve's calibre was the distance between one cliff of the Grand Canyon and the other side.
Here's the reason why I think Christopher Reeve will always be remembered as the best Superman: he gave a lot more thought to Clark Kent than any of the other actors. Dean Cain (apart from being a mediocre, two-bit actor anyway) played Clark as Superman in normal clothes. Apart from his attire there was no distinction between the two characters.
Chris Reeve took three inches off his height with the stoop, he gave Clark a completely different voice by pitching it higher and adding a stutter and his whole body language was different. The hair was also different between the two characters, but that was never really down to Reeve so much as it was the forethought of Richard Donner and the costume department.
George Reeves was an actor of a much older generation, so his woodenness can't be compared to Cain's. Every actor in Reeves's day was that way. Dean Cain just sucked generally, and the difference between him and a true actor of Chris Reeve's calibre was the distance between one cliff of the Grand Canyon and the other side.
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Hey Jim, give Cain a little credit. I thought the Lois and Clark series was decent😛
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Personally I thought it was dire. It had C-list actors, appaulingly 1960's special effects and plot lines that were the most gormless things I've ever heard. Dean Cain was to TV acting as Don from Flying Feathers is to tickling: two facial expression and one mode of body language.
I'm glad you liked it though mate. If you enjoy it, you watch it and be buggered to what I think. 🙂
Jim - Who promises faithfully that he's not going to make any more snidy bastard comments about poor old Don, as the bloke's never done any harm to him.
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If any of you want to read something interesting, get a copy of the novel "The Death and Life of Superman" by Roger Stern. It covered all of the comic-story of Superman's battle with Doomsday, plus went far beyond it to give depth to the supporting characters, the three that tried to follow in Superman's footsteps and the reaction the world had. It is one of my favorite novels, and I wasn't even a huge comic-fan at the time I bought it.
Also, there was a briefly-published magazine called "World Without a Superman" published under the false title of "NewsTime" which was supposed to be a take-off of NewsWeek. It was a "what-if" one-time-only magazine styled as if a world-level news magazine devoted an issue to the death of the "real" Superman. It even had fake ads centered around such things as "Lex-Air Airlines", "Silver City Industries", "Wayne Industries" and things like that. Every side-bar and sub-title was geared in reality and it was a very interesting read.
I remember how stunned I felt at the time that DC was killing off Superman, and I still feel that stunned by Christopher's death.
Also, there was a briefly-published magazine called "World Without a Superman" published under the false title of "NewsTime" which was supposed to be a take-off of NewsWeek. It was a "what-if" one-time-only magazine styled as if a world-level news magazine devoted an issue to the death of the "real" Superman. It even had fake ads centered around such things as "Lex-Air Airlines", "Silver City Industries", "Wayne Industries" and things like that. Every side-bar and sub-title was geared in reality and it was a very interesting read.
I remember how stunned I felt at the time that DC was killing off Superman, and I still feel that stunned by Christopher's death.
Hey Jim and Dave
All those things that Reeve did to give a distinction between Clark Kent and Superman are things that had been established in the comics. The hunching to apear three inches shorter, the diferent hair combs. Chris Reeve and Donner went and found all the things that was established in the comics and then Chris worked at doing them realistically. People always thought why does no one ever guess he is the same guy, but as you see in the one scene in lois' apartment after the flight when he does the change right in front of you how it could be done.
There is a Metropolis Illinois. It is a city devoted to Superman. You can see it's website here:
http://www.metropolischamber.com/
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/ILMETsuper.html
I am moving to this town someday. Seriously I am going to someday.
I hated the whole Caine era too. He didn't look like him. He kind of in the second or third season started acting like Clark and Superman, but he just wasn't Superman like Christopher Gerard wasn't Superman either. I liked Thomas Newton Haynes better in that series.
Dave, read the book a few times and I loved it. I also remember that NewsTime mag when it came out.
It looks like they alos have cast the next Superman. They wehre going to relese it last week but then Reeve died on the day they were going to release it. His name is Brandon Routh. See the article here. They should be releaseing the news publically shortly.
All those things that Reeve did to give a distinction between Clark Kent and Superman are things that had been established in the comics. The hunching to apear three inches shorter, the diferent hair combs. Chris Reeve and Donner went and found all the things that was established in the comics and then Chris worked at doing them realistically. People always thought why does no one ever guess he is the same guy, but as you see in the one scene in lois' apartment after the flight when he does the change right in front of you how it could be done.
There is a Metropolis Illinois. It is a city devoted to Superman. You can see it's website here:
http://www.metropolischamber.com/
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/ILMETsuper.html
I am moving to this town someday. Seriously I am going to someday.
I hated the whole Caine era too. He didn't look like him. He kind of in the second or third season started acting like Clark and Superman, but he just wasn't Superman like Christopher Gerard wasn't Superman either. I liked Thomas Newton Haynes better in that series.
Dave, read the book a few times and I loved it. I also remember that NewsTime mag when it came out.
It looks like they alos have cast the next Superman. They wehre going to relese it last week but then Reeve died on the day they were going to release it. His name is Brandon Routh. See the article here. They should be releaseing the news publically shortly.
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Who is Christopher Gerard?😕
Yes buggs, that's what set Reeve apart. He actually bothered to act. Dean Cain had one voice, the same hairstyle virtually, and as Superman he had one body posture (standing with feet apart, arms folded over chest) and was about as convincing as a cardboard cutout.
Yes buggs, that's what set Reeve apart. He actually bothered to act. Dean Cain had one voice, the same hairstyle virtually, and as Superman he had one body posture (standing with feet apart, arms folded over chest) and was about as convincing as a cardboard cutout.
Don't know, but she made a great Lana Lang. Annette O'Toole (Who play's Mrs. Kent now in Smallville) made the best Lana Lang per the way the character was written on the comics (before the revision that made her a supermodel, she was the girl who stayed in Smallville).
I never thought much of the Superboy spin-off anyway, considering a cheap attempt to cash in. As far as I know, Clarl, although he was something of a prodigy as regards his talents and strength, didn't develop into the full Superman persona until he was about 30 years old.
