GENESIS wreaks havoc on Superman's new powers, but before it does, he discovers an ability he didn't know he had. When captured by the sinister cyber-villains known as the Mainframe, his energy-based powers allow them to open "windows" into other dimensions! All these strange lands are beyond our plane, but the evil Baud and her pals have access to all of them now that they've got the Man Beyond Tomorrow! PlusÉmeet the Bibbo/Scorn team!

Funeral for a Friend part 3, continued from ACTION COMICS (1938-2011) #685. The actual funeral for the defeated Man of Steel draws crowds of DC's most famous heroes to his side. In Smallville, Ma and Pa Kent--unable to claim their son's body--hold a symbolic funeral for Clark. Continued in SUPERMAN (1987-2006) #76.

The adventures of the Man Beyond Tomorrow continue! Metallo wants a radical upgrade for his matchless might and he's managed to overtake a nuclear sub to do it! Can Superman and the emissary from Kandor stop him before he completely levels Metropolis?

Bizarro World' part 4, continued from ACTION COMICS (1938-2011) #697. Having captured Bizarro and saved Lois, the Man of Steel must take his imperfect clone to the only place that can possibly save the deteriorating duplicate: LexCorp. Continued in SUPERMAN (1987-2006) #88.

Superman receives a new costume with a new symbol on his chest to go along with his strange new powers. But the costume comes from more than one source. Who has contributed to the suit that helps Superman adjust to his new powers? The answers will surprise and astound you in this event that deeply affects the lives of Superman and those around him.

In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill. On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touching on, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American anti-Semitism. In this book, Lund makes a call to stem the diffusion of myth into accepted truth, stressing the importance of contextualizing the Jewish heritage of the creators of Superman. By critically taking into account historical understandings of Jewishness and the comics’ creative contexts, this book challenges reigning assumptions about Superman and other superheroes’ cultural roles, not only for the benefit of Jewish studies, but for American, Cultural, and Comics studies as a whole.

Describes and lists the values of popular collectible comics and graphic novels issued from the 1950s to today, providing tips on buying, collecting, selling, grading, and caring for comics and including a section on related toys and rings.