Adventures of Superman #498
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe stark, inverted image on this January 1993 cover says everything without saying a word — Superman's lifeless form lies face-down amid shattered concrete, surrounded by scattered newspapers bearing headlines about the Doomsday massacre, rendered in haunting black and white. The tagline "World Without a Superman!" anchors the lower corner, and the story arc banner "Funeral for a Friend/1" signals this is only the beginning of DC's extended farewell to the Man of Steel. Tom Grummett and Doug Hazlewood deliver a cover that is quiet, somber, and genuinely affecting — a fitting opening chapter to one of 1993's most emotionally resonant Superman storylines.
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Reprinted in Superman: World without a Superman #[nn] (1993), Superman #1 (1993), Super-Homem: Funeral para um Amigo #1 (1994), Superman #9/1995 (1995), Superman: Cover to Cover #[nn] (2006), The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus #[nn] (2007), Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus #[nn] (2013), Superman #2 (2016), Superman Anthologie #[nn] (2018), Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus #[nn] (2019), Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Compendium #[nn] (2025)
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