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Superman: The Doomsday Wars (Superman) by Dan Jurgens (Illustrator), Norm Rapmund (Illustrator) A lackey of brainiac was able to save doomsday from the end of time. Brainiac's body was damaged in a battle with Superman and now he wants to get into Doomsday's body. Lana Lang's baby was born prematurely, and Superman is trying to get the baby to a hospital that can help him. Brainiac wants to use tissue from the baby to clone a new doomsday body that he can control without problems.

Superman VS Doomsday "The Death of Superman"

With the beginning of 1992, DC Comics delivered the biggest publicity stunt since Coca Cola ran that big publicity stunt with "new" Coke taste and the "classic" Coke taste all to gain just public attention. "The Death of Superman" began back in the multiple Super-Hero All Star cast with "Panic in the Sky". Superman's arch foe Brainiac takes over War World, and is confronted with every DC super-hero, (Captain Marvel, Lar Gand aka. Mon-el (with the Legion or his new name Valor) Wonder Woman, Agent Liberty, the New Justice League, and so fourth), Brainiac is defeated and is left lobotomized. But before his defeat, he releases a huge metal ball that contains the monster DOOMSDAY!

 So with the beginning of the battle in Superman: the Man of Steel #18 Doomsday bashes his way out of the metal container and starts his destructive rampage along the country side. The Justice League soon confront the monster and are very quickly defeated. Guy Gardner former Green Lantern is really the only Leaguer who really puts up a fight, but is quickly defeated and sent out on a stretcher. Not surprised and about time!

 This new so-called Justice League who at the time was lead by Superman, hears of the monster while doing a TV talk show in front of a live audience filled with teeny-boppers and high school punks, ups and leaves to confront the situation and is soon greeted by Booster Gold in Justice League #69 and the REAL BATTLE BEGINS!!!

 The Adventures of Superman #497 and Superman #74 have the most destructive and devastating battle Superman has ever had. Along the way the battle falls into the Cadmus Project and the abandon Habitat Area where the battle levels the entire area. Superman has some help from the Golden Guardian but after taking the warrior woman Maxima to the hospital, the Golden Guardian is quickly leveled by the Monster Doomsday and the battle continues on with Superman in hot pursuit.

 In Action Comics #684 and Superman: the Man of Steel #19 Doomsday's rampage carries the battle to the outskirts of Metropolis, a half naked Superman is just about on the verge of really dropping dead but his fury and enthusiastic determination keep Doomsday off balance and now the battle enters Metropolis. After a near 150 mile long battle of destruction, the only hero to help Superman along this path of destruction, is Lex Luthor Jr.'s new female "pet" a new Supergirl. (sadly the only survivor of the Pocket Universe, did I not tell you that the Pocket Universe would come back and haunt Superman? Read Superman vs Superboy battle article #7) But one punch from Doomsday, and she is quickly turned back into the mushly-soggy cornflakes clay substance she was created out of. Lex Luthor Jr. in the mean time is sitting on his fat butt still wining about what kind of a public nuisance Superman is, decides to send out his battle troops to try and help subdue the rampaging Doomsday! But the monster shrugs those clowns off like swatting mosquitoes.

 FINALLY: in Superman #75 the battle comes to a dramatic conclusion a half-naked bleeding and battered Superman defeats the monster and drops into Lois Lane arms and croaks!

 Thus the end of an era and the start of another mess with the "Reign of the Supermen"  and another great story line of would the "real Superman please stand up?" series that does lead into the "RETURN OF SUPERMAN" and thus another story lines for another day. But unlike "Panic in the Sky!" story line, my question that I have been asking since Superman's 1992 battle with Doomsday is WHERE THE HELL WERE ALL THE SUPER-HEROES when Superman was kicking Doomsday butt? Playing hide and go seek with Bin Laden????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

written by Mike