While searching for the energy of the Black Lantern simultaneously dispatching various Doomsday ' clones ' created from the original to distract Earth's heroes by sending them after the other members of the Superman family with the aid of a robotic duplicate of Lois Lane created to give him an honest opinion on his actions, Luthor encountered Brainiac in space while attempting to alter the last of the Black Lantern energy, acting upon an unspoken theory of his.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Luthor has illegitimate children, two of whom try to kill Superman over the course of the last two seasons.

His last acting role was in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman ( Season 1, Episode 9, originally aired on November 21, 1993 ), in which he played the Mayor Frank Berkowitz.

A central theme of this version of the Superman mythos was that the character was to remain the last surviving remnant of Krypton.

In an effort to return Superman to his special status as the " last son of Krypton " DC had used the Crisis and the Man of Steel limited series to eliminate most of the Kryptonian supporting characters.

( The last makes her undetectable even to Superman.

When she fails, she dresses up as Superman herself, only to have Reeves turn up in costume at the last minute and rescue her after she traps herself on the ledge of her apartment.

The last cartoon produced at Fleischer Studios was the Superman cartoon, Terror on the Midway.

" Also, Robinson said " Tim was like Superman out there ", and conceded that the Lakers were simply better, just like in the last playoffs campaign.

Several months after the last issue of The New Adventures of Superboy, a four-issue miniseries was published called Superman: The Secret Years ( 1985 ), which tells the story of how Superboy becomes Superman during his junior year of college.

Hamilton was originally chosen to direct Superman: The Movie in 1978, but due to his status as a tax exile he was only allowed to be in England for thirty days, where production had moved at the last minute to Pinewood Studios.

Action Comics Annual # 10 states that Mister Mxyzptlk was last seen 190 days ago and that the pronunciation of his name is Mix-Yez-Pittle-Ick ( as it was in the 1960s Superman CBS-TV cartoon show, mentioned previously ).

His last line of dialogue in the episode, however, is done by Mike Farrell ( voice of Jonathan Kent ) as a sign of Superman realizing the truth about the fantasy.

The last sequence shown in the novel has Kal-El, now grown up to become Clark Kent / Superman, reading a letter that Einstein had written to him, using the written Kryptonese language, in which he explains the sequence of events.

Superman thwarted Brainiac's plot by driving him out of Doomsday's body with the use of a telepathy-blocking ' psi-blocker ' that he had used in his last battle, forcing Brainiac out of Doomsday and leaving him with no other option but to adopt a recently-designed robotic body, dubbed Brainiac 2. 5, where he would be forever trapped as he could not abandon it.

At the same time John Corben, who is receiving his last adjustments in his transformation into Metallo, is suddenly possessed by the artificial intelligence who demands for Superman.

Though its status as a truly imaginary story ( dealing as it does with the finale of the Earth-1 Superman ) is debatable, the last official " Imaginary Story " ever published —" Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

He was incarcerated in Kasnia-Audrey vowing that they would see just how much punishment he could survive -, but later escaped at some unspecified time. Savage's last appearance was in " Hereafter " ( Part 2 ), when, a few months after the supposed death of Superman, he used a gravity controlling device to kill the League, but accidentally unbalanced Earth's orbit and killed the rest of the human race.

Five Leaguers, including Superman, combined their energy powers in an attempt to take Doomsday down, but succeeded only in destroying the last of his ancient burial cables, allowing him to use both hands.

In this series, Prin Vnok, an underling of Brainiac uses his technology to travel to the End of Time to retrieve Doomsday in order to combine the beast's massive power with Brainiac's formidable intellect after his original body was badly injured in his last fight with Superman ( this was later revealed to have taken place due to the timeline's reconstruction following the events of ' Zero Hour '; the reconstruction of time meant that Brainiac was able to change the events of Doomsday's defeat ).

Many of these plots had Jimmy and Lois being captured, only to get rescued at the last minute by Superman.

In one of the last episodes, " The Perils of Superman " ( a takeoff on The Perils of Pauline ), there was indeed deadly peril straight out of the movie serials: Lois tied to a set of railroad tracks with a speeding train bearing down on her, Perry White nearly sawed in half while tied to a log, Jimmy in a runaway car headed for a cliff, and Clark Kent immersed in a vat of acid.

* Professor Pepperwinkle is an elderly, absent-minded inventor whose gadgets cause Superman much trouble and concern in five episodes during the last three color seasons.

This is the story of his last tragic voyage, as nearly as we are able -- or ever, probably, will be able -- to determine:

Among the last of his labors was the defense of the orthodoxy of his former pupil, Thomas Aquinas, whose death in 1274 grieved Albertus ( the story that he travelled to Paris in person to defend the teachings of Aquinas can not be confirmed ).

If he felt out of ideas on what to do with the story, he would often take a break from the shoot that could last for days, while keeping the studio ready for when he felt inspired again.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

The last new comic book story drawn by Carl Barks was a Daisy Duck tale (" The Dainty Daredevil ") published in Walt Disney Comics Digest issue 5 ( Nov. 1968 ).

This story was reprinted in the last chapter of the manga Book 6.

In this last section of the story ( book and film ), the reactivated monolith consumes Bowman and modifies him into something more than human.

The story of Donald Campbell's last attempt at the water speed record on Coniston Water was told in the BBC television film Across the Lake in 1988, with Anthony Hopkins as Donald.

BB's The Little Grey Men ( 1942 ) is a story of the last gnomes in England, little wild men who live by hunting and fishing.

* In his short story The Harbor Master, by Robert W. Chambers, the discovery and attempted recovery of the last known pair of Great Auks is central to the plot ( which also involves a proto-Lovecraftian element of suspense ).

The last story is probably the most famous, having inspired at least eight movie adaptations ( two of which are now considered to be lost ), one animated movie, two documentaries and a video game.

It is possible that Saxo then enlarged it with Books 15 and 16, telling the story of King Valdemar I's last years and King Canute VI's first years.

:" I call your own kind self to witness [...] the last pages of Heart of Darkness where the interview of the man and the girl locks in — as it were — the whole 30000 words of narrative description into one suggestive view of a whole phase of life and makes of that story something quite on another plane than an anecdote of a man who went mad in the Centre of Africa.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

The item, offered as a news story, reported, " A critical friend, who read Melville's last book, ' Ambiguities ," between two steamboat accidents, told us that it appeared to be composed of the ravings and reveries of a madman.

* Genesis ( story ) ( 1951 ) by H. Beam Piper-The last survivors of the ancient humanoid culture on Mars flee their dying planet about at 100, 000 B. C.

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

The roots of the Vorkosigan Saga lie in an early short story by Bujold, " Dreamweaver's Dilemma ", which features a planet called Beta Colony and a character with the last name of Naismith.

The two most commonly cited examples are the last verses of the Gospel of Mark and the story of the adulterous woman in the Gospel of John.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

Among the last things he made while he was still in Italy, at the end of the Eighties and at beginning of the Nineties, there are the so called Paperolimpiadi ( a long story about the 1988 Seoul Olympic games ) and some strip stories, the same kind of stories that he loved when he was a child.

The story features Holmes and Watson coming out of retirement one last time to aid the war effort.

Exceptions include Robot ( which was the last story to be produced by Barry Letts ), where it was again used to detonate mines, and as a " miniature sonic lance " to cut out a lock.

* " Survivor " ( story ), the last novella in Accelerando by Charles Stross

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937, a dramatisation based on the true story of the evacuation of the last 36 inhabitants of the remote island of St Kilda on 29 August 1930.