Superman: The Man of Steel, Vol. 2

Superman: The Man of Steel (Collected Editions) #2

by John Byrne (Writer/Penciller), Marv Wolfman, Jerry Ordway

Presenting modern tales of his earliest adventures, SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL VOL. 2 is a fascinating book of human drama and super-hero action. In these enthralling stories, Superman begins his lifelong rivalry with Lex Luthor as the industrialist megalomaniac and the last son of Krypton vie for the heart of Lois Lane and control over Metropolis. Traveling through time and outer space, the Man of Steel endures a series of grueling trials and tribulations in which he reveals his alien background to Lois Lane, discovers his lethal weakness to kryptonite, and suffers from amnesia while fighting an alien tyrant.
Collects Superman vol. 2, #1-3; Action Comics #584-586; Adventures of Superman #424-426

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Superman, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Comic Book, Fiction

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1987

About the author

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John Lindley Byrne is a British-born Canadian-American author and artist of comic books. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on nearly every major American superhero.

Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics’ Superman franchise. Coming into the comics profession exclusively as a penciler, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also started inking his own pencils). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He also wrote the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing.