Superman #1
This hardcover album marks the debut of the DC New 52 Superman in the Dutch-language market, bringing George Pérez's reinvention of the Man of Steel to Benelux readers for the first time under the RW Uitgeverij imprint. The source material itself was a culturally significant moment in Superman publishing history: the New 52 relaunch of September 2011 wiped the slate clean on decades of continuity, positioning Superman as a figure Metropolis both fears and mistrusts rather than the unambiguous civic idol of prior eras. Pérez's run used that new freedom to wrestle seriously with questions of public accountability and media scrutiny for a superpowered alien living in a surveillance-saturated city — a thematic shift that coloured the entire New 52 Superman line that followed. As the opening volume of RW Uitgeverij's Superman — New 52 album series, it also represents the publisher's commitment to releasing only collected, complete-story editions rather than periodic single issues, a format philosophy that distinguished it from every previous Dutch DC publisher.
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The underlying material was created as part of DC's sweeping September 2011 New 52 relaunch, with George Pérez writing and contributing art alongside pencillers Jesús Merino and Nicola Scott. RW Uitgeverij — the Dutch arm of Italian publisher RW Edizioni — had acquired the rights to publish Dutch-language DC Comics from January 2013 onward, and released this hardcover collection of Superman #1–6 on 21 August 2014 under the title De prijs van verandering ('The Price of Tomorrow'). The publisher's house style of producing only omnibus-format hardcovers, rather than newsstand periodicals, gave Dutch readers a curated album experience rather than the monthly pamphlet format familiar to American collectors.
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- Dutch title: Superman #1 — De prijs van verandering ('The Price of Tomorrow'); ISBN 9788868732103.
- Published by RW Uitgeverij (also marketed as RW Lion), the Dutch subsidiary of Italian DC licensee RW Edizioni; released 21 August 2014.
- Collects Superman (New 52) #1–6, the opening arc of DC's September 2011 New 52 Superman series.
- Written by George Pérez, with interior art by Jesús Merino and Nicola Scott; cover by George Pérez.
- Format: full-colour hardcover album, 144 pages — consistent with RW Uitgeverij's policy of publishing only complete-story collected editions, never single-issue periodicals.
- Story premise: a newly rebooted Superman navigates a Metropolis that fears and distrusts him, while battling an alien elemental threat that he may unknowingly have caused — establishing the New 52's more ambivalent, surveillance-era take on the character.
- The collection reached the New York Times Best Seller list in its original American edition, marking the New 52 Superman debut as a commercially notable event in the broader anglophone market.
- Part of RW Uitgeverij's wider Superman — New 52 album series, which also included Dutch editions of Action Comics (Grant Morrison/Rags Morales/Andy Kubert) and subsequent Superman volumes.
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