Superman #54
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freePhase Three of the "Time and Time Again" saga lands Superman squarely in World War II, and Jerry Ordway's cover captures the stakes with gut-punch immediacy — a determined Man of Steel strains against a Nazi-marked bomb in a desperate mid-air struggle, while enemy aircraft burn through the clouds behind him and a composed Superman watches from the upper corner. The wartime setting gives this 1991 issue a weighty, historical tension that sets it apart from a typical superhero showdown. Ordway pencils and inks the whole cover himself, and the craftsmanship shows in every anxious muscle and billowing smoke trail.
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Superman finds himself in Warsaw, Poland in June 1943 about to be hit by a Nazi train. Superman flies over the train, alerting some Nazi officers. He lands in the Warsaw ghetto where he notes that history has been changed. There, Superman discovers a plot involving General Zeiten regarding plutonium and atomic weapon experiments. Superman races to catch the train carrying the bomb. The Nazis, believing that the flying man could do more damage than all of Stalin's armies, decide to drop the bomb. Superman sees the bomb, catches it, and flies into space. He disappears in its massive explosion.
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