Elseworlds 80-Page Giant

Elseworlds 80-Page Giant

Cover to the Elseworlds 80-Page Giant. Art by Ty Templeton, featuring the Super-Sons.
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
Format One-shot
Genre see below
Publication date August, 1999
Number of issues 1
Creative team
Writer(s) Chuck Dixon, Mark Waid, Tom Peyer, Kyle Baker, Bob Haney, D. Curtis Johnson & Bronwyn Carlton
Artist(s) Various, inc. Ty Templeton, Kyle Baker, Kieron Dwyer and Aaron Lopresti, et al.
Editor(s) Dan Raspler with Tony Bedard

The Elseworlds 80-Page Giant is an 80-page collection of Elseworlds stories published by DC Comics. The collection was withdrawn and pulped after DC became concerned about a scene in one of the stories.

Publication history

It included the stories "Superman Jr. Is No More!", featuring the Super-Sons, and "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter", among others. However, DC Comics President Paul Levitz deemed the Letitia Lerner story inappropriate (for featuring scenes depicting the baby Superman in a microwave, among others) and ordered the press run halted and the printed issues destroyed. However, around 2000 copies of the issue had already been shipped to the UK. Although DC attempted to recall these copies, they quickly became a highly sought after collector's item (see Recalled comics for more pulped, recalled and erroneous comics), and estimates of available copies range between 700 and 2000.

The Letitia Lerner story earned two Eisner Awards, however, and was later republished, in the pages of Bizarro Comics (a collection originally devised as a vehicle to showcase the feature).

The Super-Sons story was republished in Batman/Superman: Saga of the Super Sons.

Contents

The following stories were included:[1]

2012 reissue

The entire issue was reprinted as DC Comics Presents: Elseworlds 100-Page Spectacular #1 (indicia title: DC Comics Presents: Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1) with a cover date of January 2012 and a cover price of $7.99 US. It went on sale December 28, 2011.[2]

The 2012 reissue included one story not included in the original 1999 edition: The Batman by Paul Pope (story and art), a tale of a Jewish Batman in 1939 Berlin. This story originally appeared in The Batman Chronicles #11, Winter 1988.

See also

References

  1. "The World's Greatest Comic Blogazine". Dial B For Blog. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
  2. "DC COMICS PRESENTS: ELSEWORLDS 80-PAGE GIANT #1". DC Comics. 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
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