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Superman Post-Crisis #23
Superman/Doomsday: The Collected Edition
Superman's unforgettable battles with Doomsday, the incredibly powerful creature responsible for the Man of Steel's death, are collected in this massive graphic novel. The two foes are-locked in hand-to-hand combat in story after epic story, as Doomsday tries again and again to take down his greatest foe once and foe all.
This volume collects SUPERMAN: THE DOOMSDAY WARS 1-3, SUPERMAN/DOOMSDAY: HUNTER PREY #1-3, DOOMSDAY ANNUAL #1, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #594 and SUPERMAN #175.
This volume collects SUPERMAN: THE DOOMSDAY WARS 1-3, SUPERMAN/DOOMSDAY: HUNTER PREY #1-3, DOOMSDAY ANNUAL #1, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #594 and SUPERMAN #175.
412 pages, Paperback
First published June 7, 2006
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Dan Jurgens
2,245 books285 followersDan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.
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October 3, 2025
Round two time....
March 19, 2022
COLLECTS SUPERMAN: THE DOOMSDAY WARS #1-3, SUPERMAN/DOOMSDAY: HUNTER PREY #1-3, DOOMSDAY ANNUAL #1, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #594 and SUPERMAN #175
The opening story in this collection was the highlight of the whole, large book. Superman has returned from death, and this story features only his second encounter with Doomsday. In the midst at that narrative, we learn Doomsday's origin story, and that added knowledge helps to show us how unstoppable he is. The opening story is 5 stars.
After that, the rest of the collection is hit or miss. I read a lot of it, but also skimmed a lot of it.
Waverider, Darkseid, Brainiac, and the Justice League are all featured in these pages, as well as many other DC characters.
The opening story in this collection was the highlight of the whole, large book. Superman has returned from death, and this story features only his second encounter with Doomsday. In the midst at that narrative, we learn Doomsday's origin story, and that added knowledge helps to show us how unstoppable he is. The opening story is 5 stars.
After that, the rest of the collection is hit or miss. I read a lot of it, but also skimmed a lot of it.
Waverider, Darkseid, Brainiac, and the Justice League are all featured in these pages, as well as many other DC characters.
March 22, 2018
I've never considered Dan Jurgens to be a good comic writer. A good idea-man, perhaps; capable of good writing on occasion, certainly; but overall, he's a workman-like writing talent. He gets the job done. Except when he's writing Superman. Dan Jurgens writes a damn good Superman. Not sure why that is. And he seems to be the only person alive who can write Doomsday - and you'd think that writing a one-dimensional, no-personality engine of destruction wouldn't be THAT hard.
However, Dan's two major storylines in this book - Hunter/Prey and Doomsday Wars - are embarrassingly better than the filler that puffs out this volume. Hunter/Prey remains epic and awesome. Engaging origin, terrific battles and scope of combat, and a really creative manner of defeating Doomsday. Superman, Doomsday, Darkseid - and a good, bust 'em up yarn with impossible odds. You can't beat that!
Doomsday Wars, though not quite as good, ups the personal stakes and gives a pretty good finale with Superman's transporter trap (too bad Brainiac is left dangling, to be resolved in Dan's final Superman issue, #150).
The other stories were rather pointless. The Doomsday Annual was okay - showing Doomsday's early encounters with Darkseid, the Green Lantern Corps and the Khunds - but nothing essential.
The two final chapters - Joe Casey's Our Worlds at War chapter and Jeph's Loeb's Superman/Doomsday rematch - were embarrassing though. Casey basically pulled Doomsday out of limbo, threw him into space, and annihilated him - just to try to make Imperiex seem threatening.
Loeb was even worse. So, Doomsday evolves beyond the ability of any foe to defeat him a second time - in Loeb's mind, this means that Doomsday will develop intelligence (which, evolutionarily speaking, isn't a given at all) and learn FEAR. So Doomsday now survives by, what? flight instinct?!
Superman put Doomsday down in FOUR pages. Way to defang a terrific rogue, Jeph. Can we just pretend that that story didn't happen?
Still, Jurgens was responsible for most of the pages, so it gets a good rating overall.
However, Dan's two major storylines in this book - Hunter/Prey and Doomsday Wars - are embarrassingly better than the filler that puffs out this volume. Hunter/Prey remains epic and awesome. Engaging origin, terrific battles and scope of combat, and a really creative manner of defeating Doomsday. Superman, Doomsday, Darkseid - and a good, bust 'em up yarn with impossible odds. You can't beat that!
Doomsday Wars, though not quite as good, ups the personal stakes and gives a pretty good finale with Superman's transporter trap (too bad Brainiac is left dangling, to be resolved in Dan's final Superman issue, #150).
The other stories were rather pointless. The Doomsday Annual was okay - showing Doomsday's early encounters with Darkseid, the Green Lantern Corps and the Khunds - but nothing essential.
The two final chapters - Joe Casey's Our Worlds at War chapter and Jeph's Loeb's Superman/Doomsday rematch - were embarrassing though. Casey basically pulled Doomsday out of limbo, threw him into space, and annihilated him - just to try to make Imperiex seem threatening.
Loeb was even worse. So, Doomsday evolves beyond the ability of any foe to defeat him a second time - in Loeb's mind, this means that Doomsday will develop intelligence (which, evolutionarily speaking, isn't a given at all) and learn FEAR. So Doomsday now survives by, what? flight instinct?!
Superman put Doomsday down in FOUR pages. Way to defang a terrific rogue, Jeph. Can we just pretend that that story didn't happen?
Still, Jurgens was responsible for most of the pages, so it gets a good rating overall.
August 15, 2017
This is a really well done look at how people react in the aftermath of a tragedy. What makes this story even more compelling is when you realize that it was written pre-9/11.
November 19, 2017
საკმაოდ კარგი თრეიდი იყო, ყველაფერი დეტალურად ახსნილი და კარგად ჩამოყალიბებული. თუმცა ბოლო 2 სტორი - "დუმზდეი პროტოკოლი" და "დუმზდეი რექსი" ოდნავ გაუგებარი იყო. შეიძლება მომეჩვენა და ხელთავიდან უნდა წავიკითხო, მაგრამ რაც არ უნდა იყოს, აუცილებლად გლიჯეთ ეს თრეიდი, Return Of Superman-ის მერე.
July 26, 2020
This is a Collectors edition that collects number of stories related to Doomsday. I have read this when I was quite young and it still feels refreshing to read this again. Quite nostalgic and maybe this was the best era for Comics
May 9, 2018
Good escapist fare.
May 18, 2019
Good (Hunter/Prey) writing mixed with horrible (Doomsday wars) writing.
March 16, 2020
Awesome.
August 8, 2007
A DC ploy to make Superman be read again. Does it work? Yes.
In this special story arc, Superman was killed by a geneticly engineered creature, Doomsday. After his demise, 4 Supermen (wearing his insignia) stepped up to fit in his shoes.
One is called Son of Krypton, who turned out to be a back up "conscience" activated by the computers in the original Superman's Fortress of Solitude, who then take over his entombed body to be recharged back in the fortress. This Superman has the tendency to be cruel, almost like Superman with Punisher's angle.
The second is Man of Steel, a former weapon expert (John Iron) once saved by the original Superman, donned a high-tech weaponized-steel-armored suit. He is the most noble and good hearted of the four, and the only one not claiming to be the "real" Superman.
The third is "SuperBoy" a genetic copy (with mixture of human gene code, making him less invincible to hurt) of the original Superman, engineered by the same institution who engineered Doomsday. He turns out to be a lesser hero than Superman was, more like SuperKid...acting as a hero-wannabe.
The last is Superman Cyborg, who later turned out to be a supervillain, with the power of "poessesing" a machine, utilizing the Krypton technology found in one of the original Superman surveillance satelites. The supervillain wanted to cash in on the absence of the big guy, and tried to take over Earth.
The story ends up with a city decimated by Superman Cyborg and his minions, the other Supermen came to the rescue...the original Kal El "spirit" awaken and through turn of events reclaim his physical body under Last Son of Krypton's control.
And the marketing ploy soon snowballed into a complex across-comic-universe story, Marvel vs DC.
Later, just this year...Marvel initiated the Civil War.
In this special story arc, Superman was killed by a geneticly engineered creature, Doomsday. After his demise, 4 Supermen (wearing his insignia) stepped up to fit in his shoes.
One is called Son of Krypton, who turned out to be a back up "conscience" activated by the computers in the original Superman's Fortress of Solitude, who then take over his entombed body to be recharged back in the fortress. This Superman has the tendency to be cruel, almost like Superman with Punisher's angle.
The second is Man of Steel, a former weapon expert (John Iron) once saved by the original Superman, donned a high-tech weaponized-steel-armored suit. He is the most noble and good hearted of the four, and the only one not claiming to be the "real" Superman.
The third is "SuperBoy" a genetic copy (with mixture of human gene code, making him less invincible to hurt) of the original Superman, engineered by the same institution who engineered Doomsday. He turns out to be a lesser hero than Superman was, more like SuperKid...acting as a hero-wannabe.
The last is Superman Cyborg, who later turned out to be a supervillain, with the power of "poessesing" a machine, utilizing the Krypton technology found in one of the original Superman surveillance satelites. The supervillain wanted to cash in on the absence of the big guy, and tried to take over Earth.
The story ends up with a city decimated by Superman Cyborg and his minions, the other Supermen came to the rescue...the original Kal El "spirit" awaken and through turn of events reclaim his physical body under Last Son of Krypton's control.
And the marketing ploy soon snowballed into a complex across-comic-universe story, Marvel vs DC.
Later, just this year...Marvel initiated the Civil War.
November 13, 2011
I was looking for a fun read when I picked this up, and that's eactly what I got!
I'm a huge Superman fan and always wanted to know what happened after Superman and Doomsday's epic battle.
Not only are the action scenes amazingly drawn, but you get to discover a little bit about Doomsday's past, which I found really interesting. The only thing that annoyed me was the inconsistency of the artwork with between the different 'chapters', also the final confronatation was a little bit disappointing.
Despite all this it was still a great, fun, easygoing read that I enjoyed!
I'm a huge Superman fan and always wanted to know what happened after Superman and Doomsday's epic battle.
Not only are the action scenes amazingly drawn, but you get to discover a little bit about Doomsday's past, which I found really interesting. The only thing that annoyed me was the inconsistency of the artwork with between the different 'chapters', also the final confronatation was a little bit disappointing.
Despite all this it was still a great, fun, easygoing read that I enjoyed!
June 4, 2009
Although he looks like a sucka in the blue and red suit, I liked the villians in the story and the flashbacks of his past. Too bad, they can't make superman movies with Darkseid or Doomsday. Kojac is overrated, I got enough of Dr. Evil to where we still have to deal with Lex. No more superman movies if your not going to put some cool villians.
April 19, 2009
I read the comic where Superman dies fighting Doomsday as a kid and it was pretty powerful to me then, so I had to get this when I saw it at the comic store. It was highly entertaining but not blow you away good. This is more about Doomsday than Superman, you get to learn his history.
November 2, 2012
A very comprehensive collection of Doomsday after The Death of Superman storyline. We get his origins, how the heroes of the DC (mainly superman) deal with him and also how he was used by other villains in their schemes through out the Dc universe.
January 16, 2016
Pretty dull stuff. This is for completists only but not essential reading for Superman fans. The first story is ok but it goes downhill quite rapidly after that. There are other Superman comics out there that are 100 times better!
June 15, 2008
I always wondered where Doomsday came from...
May 20, 2010
An interesting depiction of Doomsday and his history. I like the art and writing, and it is a suitable piece to add for Superman Fans.
May 11, 2013
From the descriptions I assume this collects Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey and the Doomsday annual.
January 16, 2015
Superman dies, but not really. Doomsday dies, but keeps creeping back. This makes no sense.
March 13, 2016
An excellent collection of Doomsday chronicles including Doomsday origin, a Doomsday/Green Lantern battle, and a Doomsday clash with Darkseid!
April 6, 2016
I enjoyed this book very much, and highly recommend this graphic novel to any fan of Superman. I give this book 4 out of 5, and it is one of my favorites.
March 27, 2009
Very dramatic!!
July 10, 2013
Generally interesting stories about Doomsday (other than the atrocious finale by Jeph Loeb).
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