Superman: Superman Vol 1 #423 "Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow? Part 1" Action Comics Vol 1 #583 "Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow? Part 2"

" SUPERMAN: QUE LE PASO AL HOMBRE DEL MAÑANA? Parte 1"

This is the first part of the imaginary story detailing the final fate of the pre-Crisis modern-day Superman. It is generally told as a flashback in the year 1997 by Lois Lane Elliot, who is retired from the Daily Planet and now a happy homemaker. The first part of the story goes as follows: 

One day in 1987, Superman returned from space to find Metropolis had suffered major damage, which Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen said came from Bizarro. Superman enters a wrecked department store and confronts Bizarro, demanding an explanation for all the death and destruction. Bizarro explains his reasons to Superman: he had recently realized that all these years, he has not been a "perfect imperfect duplicate", and so he took the necessary steps to fix that. Realizing that Superman came from an alien world that was destroyed by a natural accident, Bizarro destroyed Bizarro World then attempted to destroy his own birth world starting with Metropolis. Then, realizing that Superman never kills anyone (even bad people), Bizarro went on a killing spree through the city, murdering several innocent men, women, and children. Finally, Bizarro states that since Superman must live, then he himself must die. He holds up a chunk of Blue Kryptonite and presses it against his chest, fatally exposing himself to its poisonous radiation. Bizarro bids a final cryptic farewell to his longtime rival, then quietly passes away from Kryptonite poisoning, leaving Superman, shocked, confused, and saddened over what has just happened. 

Following this bizarre incident, Clark Kent gets ready to join his co-anchor Lana Lang in the WGBS news room when he receives two packages. The first smaller package is a group of Superman action figures that come to life, firing deadly heat-vision beams. The production crew watch as Clark Kent is attacked by the action figures' heat vision, figuring that he would never survive, when they saw that they exposed his Superman identity to them. The action figures now also speak in the voices of the Toyman and the Prankster, the two villains behind this attack. They have Superman open up the second package, which contains the dead body of Pete Ross, whom the two criminals have extracted information about Superman from. Superman finds out where the two criminals are hiding and bring them to justice, but as his civilian identity is now compromised, he fears that as the villains who were nuisances to him were becoming killers, he can only wonder what will become of those who are killers. 

Speaking of which, Lex Luthor was up around the North Pole area where he finds the inert head of Brainiac in his robotic skeletal form when parts of his head started attaching themselves to Luthor's head, taking control of him. Brainiac now reveals that he is taking control of Luthor's body as part of a new form of partnership between the two, and that now he is seeking revenge against Superman for what he had done to him. Brainiac now guides Luthor's body back to civilization where he is to build a new ship for the robot. 

Back in Metropolis, a group of men gather around outside the Daily Planet building on a hot day when they start shooting harpoons from their chest, revealing themselves to be humans converted into Metallos. They assault the staff of the Daily Planet and cause Lois Lane to fall from a window when Superman appears to rescue her and to magnetize the Daily Planet globe to capture all the Metallos inside the building. When that was done, Superman transported Lois, Jimmy, Lana, Perry White, and his wife to his Fortress of Solitude where they would be safe. As they were escaping the city, the merged Brainiac/Luthor shows up in a smaller version of Brainiac's skull ship to pick up Kryptonite Man as he appears calling out for Superman to challenge him. 

That night, as Perry and his wife sleep in separate rooms, and Lana and Lois hold each other while crying themselves to sleep, Superman is joined by his dog Krypto as the Legion of Super-Heroes' time bubble appears, bringing with the group a young version of Supergirl who has yet to know that she has died during the Crisis On Infinite Earths. Brainiac 5 presents Superman with a special memorial trophy, seemingly as if they were never going to see him alive again after this. Following their departure, Superman is seen burying his face in his hand, crying. 

To be continued in Action Comics #583.

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TITULO: Superman: Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow?

FECHA: Septiembre / 1986

PORTADA: Curt Swan (lapices), Murphy Anderson (tinta), Tom McCraw (color)

PERSONAJES:
Featured Characters: Superman
Supporting Characters: Krypto, Lois Lane Elliot, Perry White, Pete Ross (Only appearance; dies), Legion of Super-Heroes: Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Invisible Kid, Saturn Girl, Supergirl
Villains: Bizarro No. 1 (Only appearance; dies), Brainiac, Kryptonite Man, Lex Luthor, Metallo (Single appearance), Prankster (Single appearance), Toyman (Single appearance)
Other Characters: Prostitute on street, Tim Crane
Locations: Earth-423: North Pole, Fortress of Solitude, Metropolis: Daily Planet (Single appearance), WGBS (Single appearance)
Items: Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch, Blue Kryptonite, Superman action figures
Vehicles: Brainiac's Skull Ship, Time Bubble
 ESCRITOR: Alan Moore

DIBUJO: Curt Swan

TINTA: George Perez
COLOR: Gene D'Angelo, Tom McCraw

EDITORIAL: DC Comics
GENERO: Superheroes

PAGINAS: 26

FORMATO: .cbr

TAMAÑO: 19.0 mb

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 " SUPERMAN: QUE LE PASO AL HOMBRE DEL MAÑANA? Parte 2 "

This is the second part of the imaginary story detailing the final fate of the pre-Crisis modern-day Superman. It is generally told as a flashback in the year 1997 by Lois Lane Elliot, who is retired from the Daily Planet and now a happy homemaker. Prior to the second part being told, Lois Lane Elliot introduces her husband Jordan to the Daily Planet reporter doing the interview with her. The second part of the story goes as follows: 

As Superman is seen melting down the giant key that opens up the Fortress of Solitude, Brainiac/Luthor shows up somewhere near the fortress when they are joined by the Legion of Super-Villains, offering their help to defeat and destroy Superman. To that end, Brainiac/Luthor erects a force field that prevents any other superheroes from the outside to help Superman. Also, the Kryptonite Man's deadly radiation keeps Superman and his dog Krypto at bay from attacking them. 

Seeing that Superman needs help, Jimmy Olsen and Lana Lang equip themselves with the powers they had when they adopted superhero identities, transforming themselves into Elastic Lad and Insect Queen as they take on the group of villains outside the fortress. Luthor has Lana kill him so that Brainiac would no longer have any control of him, but the Legion of Supervillains quickly destroy Lana afterward. Jimmy comes to avenge her death, but Brainiac resumes control of Luthor's body long enough to kill Jimmy and to launch a missile that rips a gaping hole into the fortress. With the fortress breached, Kryptonite Man enters, seeking to kill Superman, but Krypto attacks and risks his life to kill the radiating villain. 

Superman carries Lois Lane and the trophy with him when he sees the Legion of Supervillains inside his fortress, gloating about the deaths of Lana and Jimmy. This makes Superman angry enough to attack them with his heat vision, causing them to retreat and return back to the future. Outside the fortress, Superman sees that Brainiac's head is losing control of Luthor's body as it succumbs to rigor mortis and detaches himself from it, vainly trying to crawl its way toward Superman before it goes completely dead. 

It is at this point that Superman begins to consider that somebody must be behind all the villains turning against him, and so calls out Mxyzptlk's name. He appears unto Superman, revealing that he has grown tired of becoming a mere nuisance and is now deciding to become fully evil. Mxyzptlk also starts to change from his harmless impish self to a hideous dark creature intent on overpowering Superman enough to kill him. Superman then looks at the trophy, realizing that its Superman figure is holding a Phantom Zone projector, and so goes to get the Phantom Zone projector to use it on Mxyzptlk. As he activates it, Mxyzptlk speaks his name backwards in order to return to his home dimension, but finds himself being pulled into two different dimensions and screams as he is being ripped apart. 

Realizing that he has just broken his own moral code to not kill, Superman goes into the Gold Kryptonite chamber to strip himself of all his powers as Lois Lane sadly watches on. With the force field Mxyzptlk kept active now powered down, the heroes outside the barrier enter the fortress to find dead bodies of all of Superman's friends except for Lois, Perry White, and his wife, still being alive. They see that Superman has departed from the chamber through a secret passageway and is now wandering outside in subzero temperatures where supposedly he would die. 

It is at this point where the story closes, with Lois Lane Elliot telling the reporter that any possible rumors of Superman still being alive after that are not likely to be true. As the Daily Planet reporter departs, Jordan Elliot brings their son Jonathan into the living room, where he plays with a piece of coal that he turns into a diamond. He and Lois both decide to relax with a pizza and a bottle of wine, and as Jordan turns to close the door in the last panel, he slips the reader a wink. 

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TITULO: Action Comics #583: Whatever happened to the man of tomorrow? Part 2

FECHA: Septiembre / 1986

PORTADA: Ed Hannigan, Curt Swan

PERSONAJES:
Featured Characters: Superman/Jordan Elliot (Final appearance), Lois Lane Elliot (Final appearance)
Supporting Characters: Jimmy Olson/Elastic Lad (Final appearance; Dies), Lana Lang/Insect Queen (Final appearance; Dies), Krypto (Final appearance; Dies), Perry White (Final appearance), Alice White (Final appearance), Batman (Final appearance), Captain Marvel (Final appearance), Green Arrow (Final appearance), Martian Manhunter (Final appearance), Robin (Jason Todd) (Final appearance), Hawkman (Final appearance), Superwoman (Final appearance), Wonder Woman (Final appearance)  
Villains: Lex Luthor (Final appearance; Dies), Brainiac (Final appearance; Dies), Legion of Super-Villains (Final appearance): Lightning Lord (Final appearance), Cosmic King (Final appearance), Saturn Queen (Final appearance); Phantom Zone Criminals (Final appearance); General Zod (Final appearance), Kryptonite Man (Final appearance; Dies), Mr. Mxyzptlk (Final appearance; Dies)
Other Characters: Jim Crane (Final appearance), Jonathan Elliot (Single appearance)
Locations: Earth-423 (Final appearance), Fortress of Solitude (Final appearance)
Items: Gold Kryptonite (Final appearance), Phantom Zone Projector (Final appearance)
Vehicles: Brainiac's Skull Ship (Final appearance)
 ESCRITOR: Alan Moore

DIBUJO: Curt Swan

TINTA: Kurt Schaffenberger, Murphy Anderson
COLOR: Gene D'Angelo

EDITORIAL: DC Comics
GENERO: Superheroes

PAGINAS: 30

FORMATO: .cbr

TAMAÑO: 20.2 mb

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