Death of Superman Question

[Rockman]

Okay a simple question,but wanted to know how long was superman dead in the death of superman storyline?

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Real time or comic time?

In the real world, it was about eight months. SUPERMAN #75 (1/93) to SUPERMAN #82 (8/93).

In the DCU, I think it was still supposed to have been a month or two. Not sure on that, though.

This probably belongs on the Superman board, by the way.

[Rockman]

Real time or comic time?

In the real world, it was about eight months. SUPERMAN #75 (1/93) to SUPERMAN #82 (8/93).

In the DCU, I think it was still supposed to have been a month or two. Not sure on that, though.

This probably belongs on the Superman board, by the way.

Thanks for the answer. Yeah for some reason or a other,I accidently post this on the DC forum,sorry about that.

[marshal99]

It's probably more than a month , the funeral services, the statue erected , the heroes reading the mailbag and the appearance of the 4 imposter superman.

[shawnh]

It was short enough that people believed Clark Kent survived trapped under rubble the whole time. The way I remember it, Supergirl impersonated Clark, and Superman "freed" "Clark" from where he was trapped under a building that collapsed in the Doomsday fight.

[Theophilus]

Yeah, the Supes books took on a really compressed soap opera feel where only a matter of seconds passed from issue to issue. To make things really interesting, the Batman/Azbats story was running almost simultaneously and seemed to take much longer. I can't remember how it happened entirely but it seems to me that Superman came back after a period of a few weeks, but apparently Bruce Wayne had been missing in action for a few months. Only in comic books, right? That was a wild time for DC and actually got be me back into comics (and into DC, no less after years as a Marvel exclusive).