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Cover to Action Comics #340, art by Curt Swan. In the Pre-Crisis, Raymond Maxwell Jensen was a lowlife who got a job as a plant worker for a research center. [6] Wrongly believing that the company payrolls were hidden in storage containers, Jensen opened one and was bombarded with energies from biohazard materials (which was actually waste collected by Superman when he traveled into outer ...
Brainiac takes the captured Superman, Parasite, Livewire, Superbly, Livewire, and Parasite to his room, where he uses their energy to create his wife Brainiac Queen. Lobo and General Chacal plan to leave, but Brainiac betrays them by ordering Brainiac Queen to slaughter the majority of Lobo's people and General Chacal in order for her to gain ...
Superman later goes head to head with the villain Parasite, whom he defeats with the help of warsuit, in which he can fight Parasite on equal terms. In Volume Three, Lois subsequently warns Superman that she learned from her uncle, a United Nations delegate, that the U.N is developing fail-safes against Superman.
Superman (1978) was the first big-budget superhero movie, and its success arguably paved the way for later superhero movies like Batman and Spider-Man. [117] [118] [119] The 1978 film spawned three sequels: Superman II (1980), Superman III (1983), Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
[5] [13] Plastino drew the first appearance of the supervillain the Parasite in Action Comics #340 (Aug. 1966). [14] Plastino's "greatest pride"' [1] was a story he drew for Superman #168 (April 1964, scheduled for publication Feb. 1964), titled "Superman's Mission for President Kennedy."
Magog is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, generally as an enemy and foil to Superman.He first appeared in Kingdom Come #1 (May 1996), and was created by Mark Waid and Alex Ross.
The superhero Icon is mentioned in Final Crisis: Superman Beyond #2 as being an analogue to Superman. Icon is an alien named Arnus from the planet Terminus who crashes his lifepod in the southern United States in 1839, and is found by an African American slave woman. The lifepod alters his DNA to match the male equivalent of hers, but to a ...
Superman II is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester and written by Mario Puzo and David and Leslie Newman from a story by Puzo based on the DC Comics character Superman. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] It is the second installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman (1978).