Doomsday! (November, 1992-January, 1993), compiled as The Death of Superman. The whole arc, sometimes called The Death and Return of Superman for obvious reasons, is split into three parts: Forced to come up with a new storyline to replace "The Wedding" arc, Jerry Ordway, the then-current writer for The Adventures of Superman, jokingly said at the next meeting, "Let's just kill 'im!" Normally, the other writers would laugh it off, but this time, they would do the deed. The Death of Superman arc happened by accident: originally, the then-current Superman writers were going to get Superman and Lois Lane married however, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was already green-lit at ABC, and the producers of the show wanted the wedding to happen first on the show. However, the most famous instance was the Story Arc called The Death of Superman in the canon comics during the 1990s. An earlier story from Challenge of the Superfriends also featured Superman (and the rest of the League) being killed. The final episode of Super Friends (aired in November 1985), was also titled "The Death of Superman", and opened with the funeral ceremony, featuring the coffin being sent into the sun. 
Originally an imaginary story, Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths revealed that this story is in fact an alternate real universe: Earth-149.Īnother notable one was Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?, which was about a theoretical end to the pre-Crisis Superman. Notably, the first " Death of Superman" story ( Superman #149) was written by Jerry Siegel in 1961. The first occasions were as "imaginary stories" (that is, set outside of the official continuity) published during the Silver Age of comics.
Whatever the case, this has been done several times in various media over the decades. Or maybe it's because some people can't stand the character and want to see him offed even if only for a short while. Maybe it's because he's normally invulnerable to nearly everything and so his death comes as a shock. It may be because, being the Ultimate Hero, it is awesome to see him make the ultimate sacrifice. "For this is the day - that a Superman died."įor some reason, killing off Superman is a popular idea.
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