Driven alcoholic, Superman, his outfit dirty and neglected, eventually goes to a car wrecking yard where Kent, in a proper business suit and glasses, suddenly emerges from within him.

Lex even goes so far as to cure Lena's illness, and then immediately undoes the process, leaving her completely catatonic, solely in order to make a mocking point to Superboy and Superman.

Superman finds the Blue Kryptonite and is aged back to normal, then goes on his quest to rescue the other Super Friends and ultimately send the three villains back into the Phantom Zone.

Krypto goes missing for over a year following the death of his previous owner Conner Kent, but Superman is unable to devote much time to search for him ( Superman himself having been without his powers for much of that time ).

Superman later destroys the Fortress after it has been breached by Luthor and the Phantom Zone criminals, but then goes back in time, where it remains normal.

Brainiac goes around absorbing information until Superman destroys him with his super-breath.

However, Doomsday instead kills Milo and goes to fight Superman.

In the series, Superman and Batman battle their arch-enemies Lex Luthor and The Joker, and for that, they temporary exchange their places in their homecities, thus, Superman goes to Gotham City, and Batman goes to Metropolis.

With Superman's powers, Parasite goes on a rampage and even finds Superman in his apartment, draining him once again, learning his secret identity of ( Clark Kent ), and trapping him inside a boiler room in S. T. A. R.

Cadmus goes to war with the forces of Lex Luthor in a Superman story called " The Fall of Metropolis.

When Superman now goes out to rescue those in need, people are too fearful to even go near him.

In a cutaway Peter goes to hell and sees Adolf Hitler, Al Capone and Superman.

Superman accidentally finds himself there and, to allay people's fears of him, goes on a " constructive rampage.

" The original Bizarro, aka Bizarro # 1, goes to Earth and attempts to stop Superman with the help of his friends.

A fight ensues in which the " evil " Superman tries to dispose of the " good " Kent, but the latter fights back, " kills " the evil side to his nature and, reclaiming the Superman mantle, sets off to repair the damage and capture the villains.

Having taken control of several European countries through his machinations, he tries to provoke a war between the two fictional nations of Galonia and Toran with the help of the crooked Galonian General Lupo planning to set all the nations of the world at war, but is stopped by Superman.

When Lex Luthor tries to use his Kryptonite ring on Superman, it doesn't work due to the fact that Superman was actually Batman in disguise.

This 3 issue mini series follows immediately after the events of " Brightest Day ", and follows the actions of John Constantine as he tries to work out what has changed with Swamp Thing, and track him down, with the assistance of Zatanna, Batman and Superman.

*" Lucy and Superman ": Lucy tries to get George Reeves, star of the 1950s Adventures of Superman television series, to appear at little Ricky's birthday party.

* Hawkman appears in Mad where he tries to appeal to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman about being called " Super Friends.

* Red Tornado appears in Mad where he tries to appeal to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman about being called " Super Friends.

" The imp tries to get the Man of Steel to say " Namrepus " ( Superman backward ), but that doesn't work ; Superman banishes himself back to Earth by saying " Le-Lak "-his Kryptonian name ( Kal-El ) backwards.

Superman tries to get Mxyzptlk to say his name backwards at different attempts ( one of them in his Clark Kent guise ) and finally manages to trick Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards by messing up the pronunciation of his name.

When talking to Lisa, he compares himself to Superman and compares Bob to Mxyzptlk, when Lisa tries to correct the pronunciation, Comic Book guy appears out of nowhere and admits that both were correct.

* Zatanna appears in Mad where she tries to appeal to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman about being called " Super Friends ".

Black Lightning ( portrayed by Sinbad ) tries to enter the funeral, but no one knows him even though he claimed to have taught Superman how to fly.

Superman tries to convince Batman to leave, and his evasive attitude and refusal to answer questions leads Batman to punch the Man of Steel across the jaw ; the Caped Crusader's hand is nearly shattered.

The Ultra-Humanite tries to extort millions of dollars from a cruiseline, but again he is foiled by Superman even though Ultra uses some kind of hologram of himself to escape capture.

Ultra tries hypnotizing him by placing a helmet on his head, but Superman fakes being controlled, and when he is taken to spread the plague with a henchman, he destroys the " fantastic airship of Ultra's creation " that was spreading its " cargo of Purple Death ".

Superman then returns to Ultra's stongholds where the villain tries to blast him, but Superman places the Ultra-Humanite in front of the gun, killing him.

Superman throws a huge stalagmite into the switchboard, breaking the electrical connection, and then tries to capture Dolores.

Perry also appears in Super Friends, in the episode " Superfriends, Rest In Peace " of Challenge Of The Superfriends, when Superman tries to rescue him and Lois Lane from Luthor and Solomon Grundy.

Kyle Rayner appears in Mad where he tries to appeal to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman about being called " Super Friends.

The 2004 series Superman: Birthright also explained that Superman's eyes are an inhumanly vivid shade of blue, which Clark's glasses diffuse to make his eyes appear more human.

This was predicated by an attempt on Luthor's part to link Superman to a kryptonite asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth, claiming that he had ' evidence '- which he declined to share while claiming that it would make the public laud his actions if they knew it-that the asteroid was being drawn to Earth by Superman, offering a billion dollar reward for Superman's capture that pitted Superman and Batman against an army of villains, all of whom they defeated.

Blaming Superman and Lois for Luthor's death ( Superman for not saving him and Lois for " driving him to his death " by saying No to him at the altar ), Arianna uses subliminal messaging to turn part of Metropolis against Superman, and uses plastic surgery to make a henchwoman look like Lois.

Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman and ' The Last Days of Krypton ', telling the story of how Krypton came to be destroyed and the choice two parents had to make for their son.

At first, authors like Jijé in Spirou and Edgar P. Jacobs in Bravo continued unfinished American stories of Superman and Flash Gordon, and simultaneously by imitating the style and flow of those comics vastly improved their knowledge of how to make efficient comics.

" Several Corps members also make cameos in the Superman: The Animated Series episode " In Brightest Day ," which featured Kyle Rayner.

The new Filmation studio would for the next few years make television commercials, until approached by DC Comics editor Mort Weisinger to do a Superman cartoon.

The producers of the show decided to make Superman more believable by limiting his powers so that according to them he could probably be killed.

This plan backfires, as Halk Kar begins to assume a superior attitude to Superman and even begins to make romantic advances on Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane.

Remaining in DC Comics continuity, Bizarro continued to make semi-regular guest appearances that firmly established the character as part of the Superman mythos.

Jack Larson, however, told biographer Beaver: " Anyone who thought another season of Superman would make George Reeves happy didn't know George.

The second season reveals that Superman has come to view him as a brother and he has broke up with his girlfriend, Miss Martian, who disapproved of her reckless use of telepathy and her attempt to make him forget about a fight they had.

* The DC Animated Universe heroes Batman, Robin, Superman, Green Lantern, the Justice League and Batman Beyond also make appearances in the series.

Animator Bruce Timm, who helped make Batman and Superman into animated television programs in the 1990s, took on the challenge of adapting the Justice League comic book and turning it into an animated sequel to his two former animated series.

Superman was initially redesigned to have a bit of a squint to his eyes and slight wrinkles that was also meant to make him look older, in addition to having a noticeable shining streak to his hair ; he was redesigned to appear larger in physical girth than in the previous series.

As a joke, he once stood on the building ledge outside the Daily News building for 30 minutes wearing a Superman costume so that he could make an entrance to a meeting through the window in the manner of actor George Reeves entering Perry White's office on The Adventures of Superman.

Following the 1985-1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, Superman's history was extensively rewritten, initially eliminating all other survivors of Krypton in the revised version of his origin, including Krypto, so as to once again make the premise that Superman was truly the " Last Son of Krypton " a valid one.

His abilities are limited only by his willpower ( he could, for example, make Superman morbidly obese by snapping his fingers ).