All-Star Superman

    (DC, 2006–2011)
™ and © 2006 DC Comics, Inc.

In this issue, Superman’s origin is retold (an “S” is added to a word that forever changes how you’ll look at a character); he travels to the sun to save an exploratory team; then receives unhappy news, while Luthor achieves his heart’s desire and Los Lane gets the surprise of her life.

Those are only the bullet points; as usual with anything written by Grant Morrison, there’s never less than a flurry of outré ideas, but clearly he and Frank Quitely understand that Superman is the main attraction. And they’ve produced one who is worthy of the name.

Quitely’s art isn’t just as good as always; he seems to have taken one of those quantum leaps truly fine artists periodically make. If he had a weak spot before, it was his overly chiseled, heavily lined faces, especially female ones. (Even those who were supposed to be sex bombs sometimes looked more like weathered desert rats.) But here he’s given readers both a remarkably evocative and authentic version of Superman and a Lois who’s worthy of his attention.

— S. A. Bennett

			Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  1/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $1.50 26 copies available from $0.99			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#1 - 2nd printing Date:  9/1/2009 Cover Price:  $1.00 NGuide Price:  $0.65 2 copies available from $0.65		Indicia reads All-Star Superman #1 Special; After Watchmen…What’s Next? tie in	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#1 - 3rd printing Date:  9/1/2009 Cover Price:  $0.00 NGuide Price:  $1.20 16 copies available from $0.99		Comic Shop 2013 giveaway to help promote Man of Steel movie	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#1 - 4th printing Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NGuide Price:  $1.00 No copies available			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#1 Variation A Date:  1/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $20.00 13 copies available from $19.99	Neal Adams cover		Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#1 Dynamic Forces Date:  1/1/2006 Cover Price:  $0.00 NGuide Price:  $15.00 No copies available		Signed by Grant Morrison; Limited to 1,499	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#2 Date:  2/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $2.00 17 copies available from $1.00			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#3 Date:  5/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $2.00 14 copies available from $1.25			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#4 Date:  7/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $1.50 25 copies available from $0.75			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#5 Date:  9/1/2006 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $2.00 24 copies available from $0.75			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#6 Date:  3/1/2007 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $2.25 26 copies available from $1.50		Death of Jonathan Kent	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#7 Date:  6/1/2007 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $2.00 29 copies available from $1.00		Versus Bizarro	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#8 Date:  8/1/2007 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $3.75 17 copies available from $2.50			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#9 Date:  9/1/2007 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $3.75 4 copies available from $3.50		1st Appearance of Bar-El; 1st Appearance of Lilo	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#10 Date:  5/1/2008 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $7.00 2 copies available from $8.50			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#11 Date:  7/1/2008 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $4.00 6 copies available from $2.75			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	#12 Date:  10/1/2008 Cover Price:  $2.99 NGuide Price:  $4.50 4 copies available from $2.75			Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Book #1 Date:  Cover Price:  $12.99 NGuide Price:  $12.99 No copies available		Collects All-Star Superman #1-6; ca. 2011	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Book #1 Hardcover Date:  4/11/2007 Cover Price:  $19.99 NGuide Price:  $3.50 1 copy available for $3.50		Collects All-Star Superman #1-6; Introduction by Bob Schreck	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Book #2 Date:  Cover Price:  $12.99 NGuide Price:  $11.00 1 copy available for $11.00		Collects All-Star Superman #7-12; ca. 2010	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Book #2 Hardcover Date:  Cover Price:  $19.99 NGuide Price:  $24.00 1 copy available for $24.00		Collects All-Star Superman #7-12; ca. 2009	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Deluxe Set #1 Date:  Cover Price:  $29.99 NGuide Price:  $26.00 1 copy available for $25.00		Collects All-Star Superman #1-12; ca. 2011	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Deluxe Set #1 Variation A Date:  Cover Price:  $49.99 NGuide Price:  $49.99 No copies available		Collects All-Star Superman #1-12	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Deluxe Set #1 Hardcover Date:  Cover Price:  $99.99 NGuide Price:  $66.00 No copies available		Absolute All-Star Superman; Collects All-Star Superman #1-12; ca. 2010	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely
	Free Comic Book Day #2008 Date:  6/1/2008 Cover Price:  $0.00 NGuide Price:  $1.75 5 copies available from $1.35		Free Comic Book Day 2008	Grant Morrison	Frank Quitely