Comics Corner: Superman - Red Son 1



Title: Superman - Red Son
Issue Number: 1
Release Date: June 2003

Highlights
  • Superman is a citizen, raised from an infant, in the Soviet Union
  • Lois Lane is the wife of Lex Luthor
  • Jimmie Olson, or James as he's called in this story, appears as Agent Olson
  • Lex Luthor is a scientist / doctor, hired by the government to create an anti-Superman deterrent
  • Wonder Woman meets Superman
  • Hints of a young Batman's origin
  • Lex Luthor creates Superman II in a laboratory
  • Superman II hits Superman so hard that he slams through a building killing hundreds of innocent people as it topples
  • Superman II sacrifices himself to destroy a missile
  • In the wake of Stalin's death, Superman vows to ensure the Soviet Union is "fixed" and that none of its people go hungry ever again
Low Points
  • With a vast history of Superman,it's sometimes challenging to adjust to the alternate reality this story takes place in
Oddities
  • Lex Luthor tells Lois that their marriage is over and he's terminated his contract with the government because his laboratory version of Superman beat him at a game of chess
Rating (based on a 1 through 5 bat symbols grading system)





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