A last-ditch effort to reclaim Superman from EclipsoÕs control is made as those heroes who remain uneclipsed, including Lobo and Guy Gardner, band together to select one among them for a suicide mission to the sun in order to bring back some raw sunlight to ÒcureÓ Superman.

The DC Summer Annual crossover event continues from JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA (1987) ANNUAL #7. The teenage Superman is electrified when Sparx—the latest infusion of New Blood in the DC Universe—makes her shocking debut in Metropolis! And as the super-powered New Blood sprout up across the DC Universe, a strange family of metahumans sacrifices its only non-powered child to the hideous extraterrestrial parasites!

Featuring the meeting of the Man of Steel and the son of Brainiac, as L.E.G.I.O.N. Õ90Õs Vril Dox comes to Earth to exact his revenge against his hated father. And if Superman wants to prevent that from happening, heÕs going to have to get through VrilÕs bodyguard...a Daxamite as powerful as himself. Continued in L.E.G.I.O.N. (1989) ANNUAL #1.

Waverider sees a possible future for Superman, one where, after an incident with Lois Lane-Kent, he banishes himself from Earth and encounters Maxima in ÒBeyond the Reach of Time.Ó

Though Superman and his family have found a measure of peace in their adopted town of Hamilton, they’ve also sensed a sinister presence lurking beneath its idyllic rural façade—something, as a visiting Batman and Robin are about to discover, that is stripping young Jonathan Kent of his powers and pitting neighbor against neighbor, hero against hero, father against son. Soon the time will come for Jonathan to choose: Will he follow his father into the light of truth and justice? Or will this Boy of Steel be forever warped by the corrupting powers of darkness? Find out in SUPERMAN VOL. 4: BLACK DAWN, featuring the creative team of Peter J. Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Doug Mahnke, Mick Gray and more! Collects issues #20-26.

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“DARK PLAINS DRIFTER.” Superman battles monsters, mayhem and magic!