Cover: Dan Jurgens & Brett Breeding

Superman #61

Nov 1991 · DC · 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.60 GBP

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“Time and Time Again Again!”

★ 1st appearance — Matthew Ryder

About this Issue

Superman (Vol. 2) #61 serves as the formal debut of Vanishing Point — the Linear Men's headquarters located at the absolute end of time — as a named, illustrated location in DC continuity, cementing it as a cornerstone of the publisher's time-travel mythology for years to come. The issue brings together, for the first time in the same story, Waverider (fresh off Armageddon 2001) and the full Linear Men team, resolving the dangling chronal threads from the 'Time and Time Again' crossover while seeding the moral tensions around timeline preservation that would echo all the way through Zero Hour in 1994. Dan Jurgens uses the collision of these two time-policing factions to stage a genuine ethical debate — the Linear Men's cold determinism against Superman's instinct to protect the innocent — giving the issue narrative weight beyond a simple crossover coda. As triangle issue 1991/36, it also functions as an in-continuity pivot between the Armageddon 2001 fallout and the beginning of the 'Blackout' crossover, making it a structural load-bearing issue in the densely coordinated Triangle Era.

In "Time and Time Again Again!", Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding deliver a pulse-pounding chapter where Superman teams up with the Metal Men to restore order in a battered Metropolis. When a catastrophic explosion threatens the city, Waverider intervenes—saving his younger self—before he and Superman are swept into the mysterious Vanishing Point, where they encounter the enigmatic Linear Men. The cover by Dan Jurgens and Brett Breeding captures the moment with striking clarity, a 1.00 USD comic from 1991 that stands out in the Superman mythos.

writer, artist Dan Jurgens · artist, inker Brett Breeding · colorist Glenn Whitmore · letterer John Costanza · cover Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding

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History

By late 1991, writer-artist Dan Jurgens had assumed full creative control of the main Superman title with issue #57 and was weaving his own concepts — Waverider, the Linear Man — into a shared tapestry alongside the other Superman titles coordinated by editor Mike Carlin. Jurgens had co-created Waverider with Archie Goodwin for the Armageddon 2001 limited series (where Jurgens served as penciller), and he had introduced the singular 'Linear Man' concept in Adventures of Superman #476 earlier that same year; this issue was his opportunity to expand that concept into a full team mythology. Brett Breeding provided inks, Glenn Whitmore handled colors, and John Costanza lettered, with Dan Thorsland as assistant editor under Carlin — a stable creative infrastructure that would carry Jurgens's run through the Death of Superman two years later.

Trivia · 8 facts

Published November 1991 as Superman (Volume 2) #61, carrying DC's internal triangle number 1991/36 — part of the coordinated 'Triangle Era' numbering system across all four Superman titles.
Story title is 'Time and Time Again Again!' — written and pencilled by Dan Jurgens, with finishes by Brett Breeding; edited by Mike Carlin.
First story to name and fully depict Vanishing Point, the Linear Men's headquarters described as a location outside conventional space-time, positioned at the literal end of the universe.
Features the first full team encounter between Superman, Waverider, and the core Linear Men (including Liri Lee and the alternate-timeline Matthew Ryder) in a single issue — resolving the timeline paradox introduced by Waverider's defeat of Monarch in Armageddon 2001.
Guest-stars the Metal Men (including Iron, Lead, and Platinum), with Doc Magnus (Will Magnus) also appearing — the issue consciously foreshadows the 1993 Metal Men miniseries that Jurgens himself would later pencil.
Ends with a teaser cameo of the villain Mr. Z returning to Metropolis, directly bridging to the next major crossover, 'Blackout,' which begins in Adventures of Superman #484 (triangle 1991/37).
The issue's central ethical dilemma — whether the Linear Men are justified in allowing tragedies to preserve the timestream — directly anticipates the philosophical stakes of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time (1994), for which this issue is widely cited as an early thematic foundation.
Reprinted in both the Superman: Time and Time Again trade paperback and the Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 1.