Superman has been my favorite character ever since. And they bought me The Death of Superman trade paperback that DC put out instantly. And I had enough of a sense of who Superman was just from having an action figure or seeing something on TV. But it was the action figure in a box meant to be a coffin. It was either a toy coffin, maybe to go with some kind of horror set or something like that, or just a little box that they repurposed. I wish I had a photo of it or something like that… or that I remembered it more vividly. They had a Superman action figure and a toy coffin. ![]() And in their window display they advertised The Death of Superman. That set off this visceral thing in me that it did in so many, which is why it was such a brilliant move because it's like, "You can't do that!" That got me really into Superman.ĪNTHONY DESIATO: I was five years old with my parents at the Galleria Mall in White Plains, New York at holiday time, and we were walking through the mall and there was a Heroes World store back then. ![]() I got into Superman, ironically, when they killed him. He was no X-Men in the '80s, which was excellent all the time. ![]() To recapture the attention of the comics audience, Carlin and DC decided to stage their own "event," the now celebrated Death of Superman saga.īRAD RICCA: I've always loved comics, but I did not like Superman. Byrne was gone and the revamping of Superman had already become old news, displaced by such phenomena as the sudden and spectacularly successful rise of new comics companies like Image. But despite all the creative energy at work, Superman's sales went into decline once again. Still later, these would be joined by a fifth, quarterly title, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow. PETER SANDERSON: After a period of transition, there were four regular monthly Superman titles: Superman, Action, The Adventures of Superman and Superman: The Man of Steel, named after Byrne's landmark miniseries.
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