DAN JURGENS AND HIS FELLOW creators didn’t envisage the Last Son of Krypton’s dramatic death at the hands of Doomsday becoming a defining moment for superhero comics when they first embarked upon The Death Of Superman. Serialised in four core titles between November 1992 and October 1993, it would go on to sell millions of copies and even attract attention from major news outlets like Newsweek and The Washington Post.
“Whenever we’d get together, we’d come up with a couple. “With this one, we thought we’d just get a nice bump out of it, so we never could have foreseen what actually happened.”
