Date: 1997

Cover Price: $5.95

Publisher: DC Comics

Collects:

• SUPERMAN #423 (Sep 1986) 

• ACTION COMICS #583 (Sep 1986) 

The Time Has Come!
Introduction by Paul Kupperberg

(excerpt) 

To ink the last Superman stories his editorial reign, Julie Schwartz called on THE TEEN TITANS co-creator George Perez for Part One. "George heard I was giving up Superman and had always wanted to ink a Curt Swan story," Julie recalls. Perez agrees, "It was a dream come true for me to finally get to ink Curt Swan's pencils, especially on his last Superman story, and to work with Alan Moore. Like everyone else, I grew up reading Curt's Superman, so it was thrilling to be working with him on just that level alone. To work with him on this story, which was a bit of history in the making, made it even more special."

Final cover to Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow Deluxe Hardcover 

posted Dec 9, 2020, 1:51 AM by Vu Sleeper

SDCC '08 - More on Gaiman-Batman with Dan DiDio 

28 July 2008, 8:07PM CDT by vu (vu sleeper)

Comics! 52, GLC, and JSA! 

News Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:34:59 CST Vu

Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow - Walmart Exclusive

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 21:36:29 CST Vu

From Vu

This Superman Returns/Justice League: Justice on Trial bundle is a pretty good deal, not only do you get the Superman Returns movie, but the bonus JL DVD. Plus for $2.97, you can download the movie (see more prices at www.pocket-lint.co.uk).

The best part is: it also comes with a reprint of SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW!I could not find a photograph or scan of this pocket sized comic book,so if you have a copy, I would like to see a scan of it.

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Superman Returns (Exclusive) (Widescreen) (also available in Full Screen)

Monday, November 13, 2006 7:35:53 PM

(excerpt)

$19.96
About the Movie
Exclusive includes "Superman Returns" and Bonus Item. "SupermanReturns" - He's back. A hero for our millennium. And not a moment toosoon, because during the five years (much longer in movie-fan years!)Superman sought his home planet, things changed on his adopted planet.Nations moved on without him. Lois Lane now has a son, a fiancee and aPulitzer for "Why The World Doesn't Need Superman." And Lex Luthor hasa plan that will destroy millions - no, billions - of lives. FilmmakerBryan Singer ("X-Men") gives the world the "Superman" it needs,honoring the legend everyone loves while taking it in a powerful newdirection. Brandon Routh proves a perfect choice to wear the hero'scape, leading a top cast that includes Kate Bosworth as Lois and KevinSpacey as Lex. And the thrills from a sky-grapple with a tumbling jumbojet to a continent-convulsing showdown - redefine Wow. "I'm alwaysaround," Superman tells Lois. You'll be glad he is.

Packaging Type is Side-by-Side; "Superman Returns" (Widescreen Version)

Alan Moore Interview in CBA

July 20, 2003 

From Vu

COMIC BOOK ARTIST #25 is anall-Alan Moore issue. In a rare interview with Moore, I found out a lotof things that I didn't know about Moore. For instance, he broke intocomics writing and drawing his own strip. I also did not know that hetruly love the comic book medium, that when he was a child he wouldread all the UK comics and genuinely love the Superman mythology. Thereis an interesting comment that he made, which if you write about acharacter who can fly, the reader reads this and imagines what if youcould fly. What if *I* can fly. Suddenly, all the wonder andimagination is put into the reader's head. Anyway, here is an excerptwhich George got mentioned.

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ALAN MOORE
Interview conducted by Jon B Cooke & George Khoury

(excerpt)

SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW? DELUXE EDITION (Jul 2009)

DC Comics

CBA: Ittook me some time to finally read your work. I would go into comicstores and people were always saying, "Alan Moore this, Alan Moorethat," and the talk made it sound like you were trendy and I usuallybeen disappointed buying into trendy stuff. But when I finally read"The Anatomy Lesson" [SWAMP THING #21] I thought, "No f*cking way! This guy's putting hallucinogenics into mainstream comics!" [laughs]

Alan: But it wouldn't have worked if Iwasn't a traditionalist. None of this radical work would occur toanyone who wasn't a traditionalist. Unless I understood the traditionof Swamp Thing, how could I ever come up with exactly the right sort oftwist to put in them?

When I got my crack at doing Supermanstories, my last two stories for Julie, I didn't intend to beirreverent or take the character to some ultimate extreme. I usedelements from earlier stories and certainly stretched them, but forinstance, I loved Krypto. I knew Krypto was going to be thrown out withall the other garbage in the next issue when John Byrne took over, butat the same time I thought I would try to get the readers to appreciatethe good stuff they were losing. I tried to write a Krypto scene thatwould make grown men weep, and it did. I got some good reports on thatdeath of Krypto. It is okay that we can love this stuff, and I do.

CBA: Did you art direct that?

Alan: This is the only comic book cover [ACTION COMICS #583] I've ever got paid doing the layouts for. That was a delight. I got to work with Kurt Schaffenberger, inked by George Pérez.

Curt Swan Book

April 11, 2003 

From Newsarama

Topic: CSN @ NEWSARAMA - CURT SWAN: A LIFE IN COMICS
posted April 10, 2003 12:15 PM
by Cliff Biggers

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Curt Swan: A Life in Comics is amost impressive volume; not only has Zeno selected an amazing array of Swan art from his lengthy career—work that has been cleaned up and reproduced with loving care to show off Swan’s skills in the bestpossible light—but he has supplemented that work with scores of unpublished pieces, pencil drawings, sketches, commissioned drawings,layouts, rarely-seen cartoons and non-comics work, and more. The pencil work in particular conveys the strength of Swan’s artistry in knowing how to convey maximum impact with no wasted lines, no cluttered layout,no pretentious visual gimmickry.

(Vu: As you know, George Pérez was a big fan of Curt Swan'shumanistic approach to drawing Superman. It was a dream come true when he was asked to inked Swan in part two of "Whatever Happened to the Manof Tomorrow?" story in SUPERMAN #423.)

Superman & Swan in CBM #97

January 4, 2003

From COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #97 (Dec 2002)

COMIC BOOK MARKETPLACE #97

Dec 2002

(excerpt)

Swan's Superman seldom expressed feelings of melancholy; rarely did he brood; yet there was often an air of palpable sadness about him, taken to the extreme in 1961's "The Death of Superman!" (inked by Stan Kaye), above and in Swan's last Superman story in '86, inked by George Pérez, below.