Superman #2
Superman #2 (1986, Reiner-Feest-Verlag) is part of an early and relatively rare West German licensing effort to bring DC's post-Crisis Superman material to German-language readers in the distinctive landscape album format that Feest favored for its American licensed titles. As one of only a small number of issues in the Feest Superman run — which spanned 1986 to 1988 — it represents one of the earliest German-market editions of the John Byrne-era Superman reboot, making it a minor but genuine artifact of how DC's mid-1980s continuity overhaul rippled outward into international publishing. For European collectors, the series documents the appetite German readers had for superhero comics at the precise moment DC was rebuilding its entire universe after Crisis on Infinite Earths. The Feest imprint itself occupies a historically interesting place in German comics publishing, as a collector-founded independent house that bridged Franco-Belgian album traditions and American superhero material before being absorbed into the mainstream Ehapa/Egmont system.
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Reiner-Feest-Verlag was founded in 1980 in Heddesheim, Germany, by comics fan and collector Reiner Feest, and built its catalog around licensed albums of both Franco-Belgian and American material. The Superman line ran from 1986 to 1988 and was produced in a landscape (Querformat) album format — a presentation more typical of European graphic albums than of American pamphlet-style comics. The publisher was sold to Egmont Ehapa in 1991, where the Feest imprint continued as a label until 2001; the Superman albums thus predate that transition and were entirely a product of the independent Feest operation.
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- Published by Reiner-Feest-Verlag, a German independent comics publisher based in Heddesheim, founded in 1980 by Reiner Feest.
- Part of the Feest Superman series that ran from 1986 to 1988 — one of the earliest German-language editions of the post-Crisis, John Byrne-era Superman material.
- Produced in landscape (Querformat) album format, consistent with Feest's broader publishing style for its licensed American and Franco-Belgian titles.
- The Feest Superman line licensed DC Comics material at the same moment DC was conducting its comprehensive continuity reboot following Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985–1986).
- Reiner-Feest-Verlag was sold to Egmont Ehapa in 1991; after that point the Feest imprint continued under Ehapa as a label offering manga, superhero, and adult comics until 2001.
- Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster — the characters underlying the licensed material in this album.
- The series is documented in German comic reference databases (comicguide.de, comicmafia.de) but holds minimal international key-issue database coverage, reflecting its status as a regional licensed edition rather than a primary publication.
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