If Mr. Spock doesn't want to her toot that horn, she really shouldn't. It might blow up the Enterprise or summon a beast that will eat the landing party.

^The one that broke the camel's back!

I always wonder why some people see color in the sky or odd cloud formations and automatically think...oh, must be Jesus.

One of the variant covers for the upcoming Action Comics #1049. I must have this!

Bob Kane was a ruthless businessman by all reports. Exploited his connection to Batman for all it was worth.

Liar, thief, and piece of shit from all the history I have read.

Superman died 30 years ago today. R.I.P.

I fondly remember visiting my local comic book shop (RIP Jolly Roger's Comics) on release day for Superman's death. The whole store was draped in black cloth for the event. Crazy crowd, people I had never seen before in the cramped store. Including many older adults who had heard about it on the news and wanted to check it out. I bought two copies - one to read and one to keep sealed. I still have both somewhere around here, lol.

I wasn't a huge Superman fan at the time (that would be years later) but I recognized its importance even then. A year or two later I'd fall away from my weekly comic book habit for unrelated reasons and wouldn't get back into the industry for nearly a decade.

I didn't get it. For fifty years, comic book characters had been falling off a cliff to certain death, only to come back after a few issues. Then DC announced that their most valuable character was going to die. I thought it was a sleazy marketing gimmick.

I don't think anyone was fooled into thinking Superman's death would be permanent. But DC had stubbornly stuck with Barry Allen's death for years by that point, so fans were curious how long Superman would be gone.

I think that most comic readers just sort of rolled their eyes at the "Death of Superman" storyline, but it hit the mainstream news and the whole thing exploded when the people who hadn't seen an actual comic book in decades thought they were serious.

I don't think that anybody thought the death would stick in any meaningful way. One popular theory at the time was that they were going to bring back the pre-Crisis Superman.

I rolled my eyes when I heard what they were doing, but it ended up being a good storyline for quite awhile there, between the death and the return of the four options and all. Fun times.

Well I was 12 when that all went down and it was beyond cool at the time. Kids like me didn't know we were living through the XTREME HOLOFOIL '90s comic boom -- we just loved it. Or at least I did.

As a long-time Superman fan and comic book reader/collector, I knew there was no way Superman would stay "dead". But it's comic books. I went along for the ride. And yes, I picked up the 30th anniversary book.