Led by Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding, the special kicks off with a new Superman story and villain.DOOMBREAKER! Followed by a s eries of short stories revisiting some of Superman's greatest allies and exclusive pinups done by some of comics' greatest artistic talent including LEE WEEKS, GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ, BILL SIENKIEWICZ, and WALTER SIMONSON. To mark this monumental moment in comics, DC has reunited the complete creative team behind the original event for four brand-new stories.

After sacrificing himself to stop the unstoppable global threat, Doomsday, Metropolis and the rest of the DC Universe mourned the loss of their greatest hero.

Art by DAN JURGENS, BRETT BREEDING, BUTCH GUICE, JON BOGDANOVE, TOM GRUMMETT, and more! 30 years ago, the unthinkable happened. There's not a specific agenda so much as something roaring across the country toward Metropolis.Written by DAN JURGENS, ROGER STERN, LOUISE SIMONSON, and JERRY ORDWAY. That if Superman is this creature of reason, that this monster Doomsday is more a force of nature. So, as we talked about that, 'Well, if it's just a monster, what is the story?' What we got hooked on there is the idea that this monster would be the opposite of Superman.

The back and forth of it was, should it be Lex Luthor, or should it be Brainiac, or should it be someone new? I just said I just want to do a big Superman flight, you know, I had written down on a notepad and presented it. ' We had sort of decided to kill Superman but hadn't figured out exactly how we were going to do it. In an interview with Screen Rant, Jurgens confirms that he and the other event creators didn't always have the creation of Doomsday in mind for the big killing: Related: Superman's Brother Is Finally Getting Revenge for His Iconic Death Though Superman didn't stay dead for long-concretely introducing the death-and-return stories that are now ingrained tropes in superhero comics-his death by the hands of the senseless monster Doomsday has had long-lasting effects on the DC Universe, both in continuity and metatextually. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this iconic and historic Superman tale, and the original writer Dan Jurgens has returned to pen a new story for the saga, as well as to clarify just how the writing of The Death of Superman went down. The 1992 event The Death of Superman is one of the most famous storylines among comic book fans, and it also made international headlines for killing the world's most recognizable superhero.

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