Superman Comics Index (from 1986)


Regular Titles

1992

  • [ 1] Superman: The Man of Steel #7 (Jan)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    Cerberus is after Lois Lane; Clark is jealous of Jeb and Lois.

  • [ 2] Superman #63 (Jan)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    Superman helps Aquaman with the Atlantis/Oumland war; Lori Lemaris.

  • [ 3] Adventures of Superman #486 (Jan)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Purge is sent to attack Mannheim in prison.

  • [ 4] Action Comics #673 (Jan)
    Roger Stern, Bob Mcleod, Denis Rodier
    First post 1986 Helgrammite; Mannheim dead; Lana and Pete Ross engaged; Jimmy moves in with Bibbo.

  • [ 5] Superman: The Man of Steel #8 (Feb)
    Louise Simonson, Keiron Dwyer, Dennis Janke
    Cerberus.

  • [ 6] Superman #64 (Feb)
    Dan Jurgens, Jackson Guice, Jackson Guice
    Metropolis Mailbag (annual Christmas story).

  • [ 7]Adventures of Superman #487 (Feb)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Jimmy does a pizza ad.

Panic in the Sky

Superman teams up with Supergirl and other heroes when Brainiac attacks Earth using Warworld.
  • [ 8] Action Comics #674 (Feb)
    Roger Stern, Bob Mcleod, Denis Rodier
    Prologue - Cellkeeper encounters Supergirl, looking like Superman; Brainiac has Matrix and Draaga fight who they they think is Superman; Brainiac takes over Supergirl, making her think Superman is her enemy; Brainiac now controls Warworld; Superman catches more Intergang fugitives; Hellgrammite plots against Luthor; Jimmy is still staying with Bibbo.

  • [ 9] Superman: The Man of Steel #9 (Mar)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    First Strike - Dubbilex senses a great danger; Brainiac has his headship attack Metropolis and tells Superman Warworld is coming; Emil and Bibbo work together; Jimmy bumps into Newstime's publisher; Perry negotiates being rehired.

  • [10] Superman #65 (Mar)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    Second Strike - Brainiac captures Metron over Maxima's planet Almerac; Metron's Moebius Chair appears to Superman at Cadmus; Brainiac defeats Orion and Lightray; Superman gets help from Emil and Luthor, asks Deathstroke to be tactical leader, asks Aquaman and Wonder Woman to help, assembles Capt. Marvel and other heroes together; Brainiac's headship in Metropolis' Hob's Bay harbor captures Aquaman.

  • [11] Adventures of Superman #488 (Mar)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Third Strike - the heroes rescue Aquaman, then with Dubbilex using the Moebius Chair pilot the headship towards Warworld; in Metropolis, Batman, Aquaman, Gangbuster, Nightwing, Thorn, Blue Beetle, Red Fox fight teleported Warworld slaves; at Warworld, Superman fights Draaga, Supergirl, and Maxima; Deathstroke, Guy Gardner, Capt. Marvel, Fire, Ice, Dr. Fate, Agent Liberty, Rocket Red, Metal Men, Lar Gand, Booster Gold, the Forever People, Mr. Miracle and Big Barda, Flash, Kilowog head inside to find Metron, Lightray, Orion; Brainiac loses control of Draaga and Supergirl.

  • [12] Action Comics #675 (Mar)
    Roger Stern, Bob Mcleod, Denis Rodier
    Fourth Strike - Warworld reaches Earth's moon; in Metropolis Team Luthor and S.C.U. help the heroes; Jimmy works freelance for Newstime; on Warworld, Dubbilex teleports the headship with Superman, Supergirl, Draaga to turn off Warworld's teleporters, and Orion and Lightray's mother boxes help Dubbilex; Brainiac controls Guy Gardner, Flash, Kilowog, Big Barda, and other heroes to stop the others; Dubbilex stops Warworld's surveillance screens.

  • [13] Superman: The Man of Steel #10 (Apr)
    Loiuse Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    Fifth Strike; Brainiac and Maxima capture Supergirl; the heroes controlled by Brainiac attack Superman; Draaga and Dubbilex free Orion, Metron, and Lightray; Maxima frees Supergirl; Lois tells Jimmy Perry is rehired; Draaga sacrifices himself to an anti-matter organic robot; Metron and Dubbilex stop Brainiac's control of the heroes; Supergirl takes on Draaga's form in honor; Maxima joins with the heroes; Brainiac readies attacking Earth cities by shrinking them.

  • [14] Superman #66 (Apr)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    Final Strike - Guy Gardner and the Metal Men watch over Maxima, while three groups of heroes try attacking Brainiac; Maxima, Metal Meen, Flash break through Brainiac's mental barrier created by him linking with Warworld; some of the heroes save Metropolis from an energy grid created by Brainiac; Maxima psionicly lobotomizes Brainiac, after he launches another weapon.

  • [15] Adventures of Superman #489 (Apr)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Epilogue - Metron takes away Brainiac; Orion takes over Warworld; Luthor leads a celebration; in space, Matrix and Cellkeeper bury Draaga with the Cleric; as Supergirl, Matrix heads back to Earth.

    [Trade Paperback Collection: Superman: Panic in the Sky reprints Action Comics #674-675, Superman: The Man of Steel #9-10, Superman #65-66, The Adventures of Superman #488-489]

  • [16] Action Comics #676 (Apr)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    Superman vs Hellgrammite trying to kill Luthor; and Clark and Lois on a date; Husque; Supergirl reaches Earth and meeting Luthor II.

  • Notable issue: Justice League Spectacular #1 (1992)
    After "Panic in the Sky", the Justice League of America reforms.

  • Notable issues: Justice League America #61-62
    Two part story. In part 1, Superman and Maxima join the JLA.

  • [17] Superman: The Man of Steel #11 (May)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    Husque and Flashpoint from Exile World, with Emil.

  • [18] Superman #67 (May)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    Energy cloud Swarm threatens Metropolis, and Team Luthor helps Superman.

  • [19] Adventures of Superman #490 (May)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Trevor Scott
    Husque and Quraci meta-human research; Collin Thornton and Ron Troupe; Senator Pete Ross supports gun control.

  • [20] Action Comics #677 (May)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    Supergirl explains her origins to Luthor; Ray Mossbach calls Lois; Ling fires Sam Foswell; Perry meets Ron Troupe; in a WGBS interview with Cat, Luthor says Supergirl will work with Lexcorp; Superman cautions Supergirl and they briefly fight; Luthor has their fight videotaped.

  • [21] Superman: The Man of Steel #12 (Jun)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Hilary Barta
    Some leftover Warworld warriors; Cruiser; Underworlders first appear using tunnels created by Cruiser.

  • [22] Superman #68 (Jun)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    "Terminator Hunt: Sins of the Father"; the story continues in Deathstroke #12-13
    Lucy Lane is shot; Superman pursues Deathstroke (Slaede Wilson).

  • [23] Adventures of Superman #491 (Jun)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Metallo escapes prison, has new body from Cerberus without kryptonite; Superman and Turpin work against Metallo; Jimmy helps Ron after his layoff from Newstime; Jose Delgado is injured.

  • [24] Action Comics #678 (Jun)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Andy Parks
    Superman takes off Metallo's head; Perry hires Ron; Lex Luthor, Jr revealed to have Luthor's brain, eyes, and spinal cord in a cloned body; Luthor attacked by Dabney Donovan clone; Lana kidnapped in Washington DC; Donovan's clone explains how Luthor had had Happersen contact Donovan, and had Donovan and Dr. Teng save his brain, eyes, spinal cord and transplant them into a young clone, then Luthor had Dr. Teng killed, and left Donovan for dead; Donavan clone dies before Luthor can kill him; Metallo tells where Cerberus is.

    [Trade Paperback Collection: Superman: They Saved Luthor's Brain reprints Man of Steel #4, Superman #2, 19, 21, Action Comics #600, 668, 670-673, 676-678]

  • [25] Superman: The Man of Steel #13 (July)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    Superman defeats Cerberus in its mountain headquarters; Jimmy sees Babe Tanaka; Pete Ross learns Sons of Liberty have Lana, and he must kill Major Holcraft.

  • [26] Superman #69 (July)
    Dan Jurgens, Pete Krause, Keith Williams
    1 - Sons of Liberty's Agent Liberty (Ben Lockwood) shoots Holcraft at a hearing; Ross is arrested; Jimmy takes Lucy Lane out after she leaves hospital; Holcraft dies after telling Superman the Sons killed Sen. Caldwell; Agent Liberty is assigned to kill Ross.

  • [27] Adventures of Superman #492 (July)
    Jerry Ordway, Peter Krause, Keith Williams
    2 - Agent Liberty decides to not kill Ross; Superman confronts Agent Liberty, then goes and saves Lana; after not killing Ross in jail, Agent Liberty kills Judge Kramer (head of Sons of Liberty).

  • [28] Action Comics #679 (July)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    First Shellshock (Ruth Spencer) in Superman comics; Clark sees Lana and Pete in Washington DC.

  • Superman Special #1 (1992)
    Walt Simonson, Walt Simonson, Walt Simonson
    Pin-ups by: Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Miller, Curt Swan and Art
    Thibert, Michael Golden, Jon J Muth, Todd McFarlane, and Geof Darrow Superman fights a sand doppelganger controlled by Luthor; explosion destroys most of Luthor's supply of kryptonite.

  • [29] Superman: The Man of Steel #14 (Aug)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    1 - Superman fighting vampires, with Robin (Tim Drake) in Metropolis; Vampire Ruthven smashes Jimmy's signal watch, controls Lucy Lane.

  • [30] Superman #70 (Aug)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    2 - Blaze tricks Sam Foswell into owing his soul, secretly attacks Ruthven when Ruthven is about to kill Superman; Thornton hires Foswell at Newstime; Ruthven is hiding in Babe.

  • Notable issue: Justice Society of America #1 (1992) with Superman.

The Blaze-Satanus War

Blaze exiles Lord Satanus from her domain.
  • [31] Adventures of Superman #493 (Aug)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    1 - Jerry White sends a vision to Jimmy warning about Blaze and the Newstime building; Lord Satanus wants to kill Foswell, when finding that Blaze is using him as a gatekeeper to allow demon hordes to gate into the Newstime building; Lois and Jimmy get into the building.
    First Lord Satanus.

  • [32] Action Comics #680 (Aug)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    2 - Blaze has the Newstime building sealed by a force field, and changes Foswell into a demon to attack Superman and Satanus; When Supergirl tries breaking through the field, Satanus has to move the building into another dimension, to prevent Blaze's power leaking out.

  • [33] Superman: The Man of Steel #15 (Sept)
    Louise Simonson, Kerry Gammill/Keith Giffen, Dennis Janke/Trevor Scott
    3 - Blaze lures Perry and Alice into Blaze's former nightclub church, moves the church to where the Newstime building is so they'll attract the humans from the Newstime building, causing Superman to leave Satanus to stop the demons from attacking the fleeing humans; Superman's powers are unpredictable in the dimension.

  • [34] Superman #71 (Sept)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    4 - Superman agrees to side with Satanus, when Blaze has her demon force attack the humans in the church; Satanus has Superman (and Perry) ring the bell in the church tower, which Satanus uses to breach the dimension and send the two buildings and humans back to Metropolis; Satanus left back in Metropolis, tells Perry and Alice that Jerry's soul is in a good place; saves Foswell; Superman and Blaze remain in the dimension.

  • [35] Adventures of Superman #494 (Sept)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    Kismet: The Road not Taken
    Superman finds himself in the living reality of Kismet's; Kismet reviews past choices of Superman and possible futures in helping him resolve doubts, then returns him to Earth.

  • [36] Action Comics #681 (Sept)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    Lois tours the new S.T.A.R. Labs in Metropolis with Dr. Faulkner; Hellgrammite attacks Faulkner wanting S.T.A.R. resources after his previous fight with Superman; Faulkner as Rampage, with Superman, capture Hellgrammite.

Crisis at Hand

Two part story on domestic abuse.
  • [37] Superman: The Man of Steel #16 (Oct)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    1 - Superman and Clark Kent are stymied in trying to help Clark's neighbor Andrea Johnson being abused by her husband Gary, when the wife refuses help; Clark recalls dealing with a previous abusive husband as Superman over 7 years ago.

  • [38] Superman #72 (Oct)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brad Vancata
    2 - Clark tells Lois how the abused wife he recalled was murdered by her husband; Andrea calls for help from a shelter, and Gary accepts to Superman that he needs help too.

  • [39] Adventures of Superman #495 (Oct)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    The Forever People need Superman's help after Granny Goodness has Beautiful Dreamer's child Maya kidnapped to Apokolips to become a replacement for Big Barda; Vinnie Edge offers a TV show contract to Jimmy as Turtle Boy.

  • [40] Action Comics #682 (Oct)
    Roger Stern, Dusty Abell, Terry Austin
    First Hi-Tech; Killgrave uses Hi-Tech to exhaust Superman before trying to kill them both.

  • [41] Superman: The Man of Steel #17 (Nov)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Bob McLeod
    First cameo appearance of Doomsday; Superman saves Keith who has wandered underground and gets captured by Underworlders being led by the Warworlders, who are stealing guns to ready an assault on Metropolis; mention by Underworlders of Bloodthirst.

  • [42] Superman #73 (Nov)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    Liri Lee tells Superman the Linear Men need to find Waverider; at a dinner date with Clark, Lois, Pete, and Lana, time stops and Superman finds Waverider; Waverider takes Superman to Vanishing Point; Waverider learns the alternate future Matt Ryder is even more important to maintaining the time stream; Waverider joins the Linear Men and Superman is sent back home.

  • [43] Adventures of Superman #496 (Nov)
    Jerry Ordway/Dennis Janke, Dennis Janke, Dennis Janke
    Clark wakes up finding Mr. Mxyzptlk has altered reality so that Superman is Mxyman and Mxyzptlk has bought out Lexcorp, leaving Luthor in his original body; Mxyzptlk uses the ability to lie taught by Luthor.

  • [44] Action Comics #683 (Nov)
    Roger Stern, Jackson Guice, Denis Rodier
    First Jackal; Superman tracks down and arrests a vigilante metahuman who calls himself the Jackal in Capital City.

Doomsday: The Death of Superman

Doomsday breaks out of a prison in the midwestern United States, and moves towards Metropolis, where Superman and Doomsday apparently die in Superman #75.
  • [45] Superman: The Man of Steel #18 (Dec)
    Louise Simonson, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke
    1 - Underworlders/Warworld evacuees try to attack Metropolis; Doomsday breaks free.

  • crossover issue: Justice League America #69 (Dec)
    Superman is interviewed on TV as leader of the JLA, while the JLA is trashed by Doomsday at a Lexcorp refinery in Ohio.

  • [46] Superman #74 (Dec)
    Dan Jurgens, Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding
    2 - The JLA are stopped by Doomsday, and Superman has to pursue him.

  • [47] Adventures of Superman #497 (Dec)
    Jerry Ordway, Tom Grummett, Doug Hazlewood
    3 - As Doomsday heads through New York state, the National Guard can't stop him, Superman thinks Doomsday is getting stronger, Lois and WGBS press begin coverage, Luthor persuades Supergirl not to help.

  • [48] Action Comics #684 (Dec)
    Roger Stern, Tom Grummett, Denis Rodier
    4 - Lois and Jimmy start copter coverage; Doomsday trashes a Lex-mart store, then heads to Metropolis; Superman and Guardian fight Doomsday damaging Habitat/Tree-City and Cadmus.


Superman Comics Index (1986-2011)

Introduction

Here is a listing of the regular Superman titles since the John Byrne 1986 mini-series Man of Steel up until the post-Flashpoint relaunch in 2011. For accuracy almost every entry is based upon actually looking in the issue, and not memory or another source.

This listing is done in the order for when a comic book issue was published.

Note: Remember, the month dates are from the issue covers, not the actual date when the comic was on sale.

The Writer, Penciller and Inker for each issue is listed under the Comic's Title and Date.

CONTENTS:

1986/Revamp | 1987 | 1988 | 1989
1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999
2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
2010 | 2011
Annuals | Specials 1996-2003 | Specials 2004-
Prestige Format Mini-Series | Graphic Novels | Pin-up Books | Trade Paperbacks

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