Cover: George Pérez

Superman #3

Jan 2012 · DC · 2.99 USD

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“A Cold Day in Hell”

Part of DC's New 52 relaunch, Superman #3 (2012) presents a striking visual puzzle: Superman stands braced amid a cityscape encased in ice and snow, his red cape billowing as he faces a luminous, ethereal figure radiating freezing energy above him. The cover's tagline — "A city frozen… and it's Superman's fault!" — suggests the Man of Steel himself may be entangled in the disaster unfolding around him. George Pérez handles both pencils and inks on the cover, delivering a dynamic composition that frames the confrontation with a real sense of scale and winter dread.

writer, artist George Pérez · artist Nicola Scott · inker Trevor Scott · colorist Brian Buccellato · colorist Brett Smith · colorist Blond · letterer Carlos M. Mangual · cover George Pérez

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Full credits

writer, artist George Pérez

artist Nicola Scott

inker Trevor Scott

colorist Brian Buccellato

colorist Brett Smith

colorist Blond

letterer Carlos M. Mangual

cover pencils, inks George Pérez

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Superman encounters a third creature who speaks the name of his birth planet Krypton, this one turning everything to ice. But this time Superman notices that the creature is connected to a human, his colleague Heather Kelley. By severing the connection between the two, Superman destroys the ice creature, but Heather is nowhere to be found in the aftermath, having gone to meet the other humans connected to the mysterious creatures.

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