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Adventures Of Superman # 455 1989 Heritage pg 15 Superman Absorbs the Eradicator Relic by Dan Jurgens & Art Thibert

Artists: Dan Jurgens (Penciller) , Art Thibert (Inker) , Albert De Guzman (Letterer) , Jerry Ordway (Writer)

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Title:	Adventures Of Superman # 455 1989 Heritage pg 15 Superman Absorbs the Eradicator Relic by Dan Jurgens & Art Thibert
Artist:	Dan Jurgens (Penciller)
Artist:	Art Thibert (Inker)
Artist:	Albert De Guzman (Letterer)
Artist:	Jerry Ordway (Writer)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	891
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Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	1/11/2016
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Adventures Of Superman # 455 June 1989
"Superman in Exile: Heritage part 11" pg 15
Inks over pencil on DC Comics board
Penciler: Dan Jurgens (Signed lower left)
Inks: Art Thibert
Writer: Jerry Ordway (Signed lower right)
Letters: Albert De Guzman

I love seeing Sups in a beard and Kryptonian garb. I love how years before Doomsday we were introduced to and given clues of what was to come. For me the Reign of Supermen started here.

"Superman in Exile" part 11, continued from SUPERMAN #32. Superman has inherited the last known relic of Krypton and, while he's trying to figure out what to make of it, Mongul battles a prison uprising inspired by the Man of Steel. Continued in SUPERMAN #33.

Superman meets the Eradicator, an ancient relic from Krypton’s past! And he’s so excited that he forgets to close his mouth. (It looks like he’s about to drool all over his beard in that cover.)

Let’s put ourselves in Superman’s shoes (or sandals, technically) here: you’ve been feeling depressed about killing some criminals, you went out to space to be alone, became a farmer and then a gladiator, and almost got killed by a guy called Mongul (in Superman #32). At that point, you find yourself transported to a nearby asteroid where an old furry person called Cleric tells you he met your Kryptonian ancestors ages ago, and hands you a semi-magical floating egg called the Eradicator. Which, by the way, kinda looks like the spaceship your parents used to send you to Earth, but smaller.

Superman is understandably put off by the Eradicator at first (it doesn’t have the most trust-inspiring name), and as a result of his trepidation, the Eradicator transforms Superman’s clothes into those nun habits Kryptonians used to wear. With the help of Cleric, however, Superman opens his heart to the magic egg and the Eradicator redresses him again, this time with his classic S-costume.

Meanwhile, the citizens of Warworld are revolting — not because their ruler Mongul is a tyrant, but because he failed to kill Superman during their gladiator fight, and these people take gladiatoring extremely seriously (they’re like wrestling fans). The Overseeres, the wimpy aliens who actually built Warworld, decide to name a new ruler: Draaga, Mongul’s disgraced champion, and so Mongul and Draaga fight each with Superman’s old costume, for some reason.

"Honor is all, tyrant!" Draaga said, clutching Superman’s pants kicking Mongul. Good thing the Eradicator got him some new ones.

Anyway, Mongul is defeated when Draaga finds out his most embarrasing secret: if you pull out that square thingy Mongul has on his chest, Mongul turns into a pansy and escapes on a spaceship. The issue ends with the newly-clothed Superman learning of what’s going on in Warworld and deciding he should probably go there.

On Earth, people no longer think Clark Kent is dead, now they just think he’s a moron. Matrix the shapeshifter (who was once Supergirl, but had a little accident that reduced her intellect to that of a 4-year old) has been impersonating Clark in Metropolis, but s/he’s more interested in looking at a water cooler than talking to Jimmy Olsen and Inspector Henderson.

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Gal Schwartz
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Posted on 3/10/2016

Fantastic early Jurgens example !

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