#ACTIONCOMICS Annual #6 (1994) #MikeMignola Cover & #JohnByrne Pencils, John Byrne Story 'Legacy' is an #Elseworlds story featuring an adaptation of #Superman, written and illustrated by creator John Byrne. In this story the kryptonian Kal-El is not sent in a rocket to Earth by his parents when their planet explodes, but one of his ancestors from the House of El arrives as a fully grown man two hundred years earlier during the American Revolutionary War and takes the side of the British Empire. Given supreme power, he eventually dominates the entire planet to his will and constructs a totalitarian regime depriving his subjects of both freedom and liberty. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SBG5WYV?ref=myi_title_dp
#ActionComics Annual #2 (1989) #GeorgePerez & #JerryOrdway Cover / Jerry Ordway, #CurtSwan, #DanJurgens & #MikeMignola Pencils / Jerry Ordway, #RogerStern, George Perez & Various Writers, 1st appearance of #Eradicator as a Device #Superman, still captured by slavers (see Adventures of Superman 454) is sold as a gladiator to Warworld for the amuse, ment of it's peoples and leader, Mongul. A cellkeeper learns that he is Kryptonian and delivers the news to the Cleric, a prisoner on one of the asteroids orbitting Warworld (the so-called "Pariah Penitentiary"). The Cleric refuses to believe that any Kryptonian could still be alive and tells the cellkeeper of his time on ancient Krypton, during the 5th historical epoch. Meanwhile, Superman is forced to fight in the gladatorial games against many foes, refusing to kill any of them. Mongul decides to have Superman fight his prized champion, Draaga. As Draaga is about to defeat Superman, the Cleric merges minds with Superman and they share each... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001F8FSCQ?ref=myi_title_dp
