Not on the plastic that was shrink wrapped around the book which would, you know, make sense. The Wednesday it came out I went to the comic shop, paid for it (and the other books I was getting that week), looked at the cover and it was at that exact moment that the disappointment really began. Sure I was going to get a ten percent discount through the comic shop I went to but that’s still seventy-some odd dollars with tax, which was and is a lot of money to plunk down for a book. The list price for this omnibus was seventy-five dollars and I didn’t even hesitate. It meant something to me on a personal level that DC decided to collect the entire saga under one cover just in time for its fifteenth anniversary. For once my sixteen year old self felt like I was there before…well, not everyone else because obviously there were a lot of other people buying the Superman books at the time, but as I was the one Superman fan amongst the comic collectors I knew it was a pretty big deal that I didn’t have to fight through crowds to get a copy of the death issues.
Not only was this one of the biggest Superman stories ever it was also one of the most pivotal moments in my time as a Superman fan. The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus was one of those times.īack in 2007 I was sixteen different kinds of excited when DC revealed in their monthly solicitations that they were going to release this book. There have been very few moments in my comic book collecting life where I REALLYlooked forward to something and was disappointed when it finally came out to the degree that I actually felt let down by the comic or comic related item I was looking forward to. I also wanted to apologize because I am pretty sure the person that wrote in wanted me to talk in glowing terms about this book and…well…you’ll soon see that I can’t do that. I would love to sit here and thank the guy that wrote in and asked me to talk about this omnibus but I can’t find the e-mail to save my life.
It is very rare that I get an actual written request to cover a particular bit of business here at the Fortress, but today’s post is the result of exactly that.
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