For the Man Who Has Everything
| "For the Man Who Has Everything" | |
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Cover of Superman Annual 11 (1985). Art by Dave Gibbons.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Publication date | 1985 |
| Genre | |
| Title(s) | Superman Annual #11 |
| Main character(s) |
Superman, Mongul, Wonder Woman, Batman, Robin, Jor-El |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Alan Moore |
| Artist(s) | Dave Gibbons |
| Letterer(s) | Dave Gibbons |
| Colorist(s) | Tom Ziuko |
| Editor(s) | Julius Schwartz |
| DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore | ISBN |
"For the Man Who Has Everything" is a comic book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, first published in Superman Annual #11 (1985) and later adapted into a Justice League Unlimited episode that aired on Cartoon Network on August 7, 2004.
Between 1980 and 1984, Alan Moore became a recurring presence in comic books published in England. Both the British division of Marvel Comics, IPC Magazines (publisher of comic 2000 AD), and Quality Communications (publisher of the comic Warrior) hired Moore to write for them. On more than one occasion Moore worked on comics with artist Dave Gibbons and the two enjoyed working together.
Gibbons's talent caught the attention of DC Comics in 1982. That year, Len Wein hired him as the artist of the Green Lantern series.
The following year Moore was also hired by Wein who had been seeking a writer for Swamp Thing due to the low sales the title had seen. Alan Moore reinvented the character and introduced new themes, dealing with social and environmental issues. Moore took over the series in 1984 and his scripts soon attracted the attention of audiences and critics.
Both before and while working on Swamp Thing, Moore submitted numerous proposals to the publisher, seeking to work with characters like Martian Manhunter and the Challengers of the Unknown, but all ended up being rejected because DC had already developed projects with other writers for the characters with which he intended to work. When the editor Dick Giordano finally approved the project that would become Watchmen, Moore and Gibbons began working on planning the stories. Shortly after, the editor Julius Schwartz asked Gibbons if he could draw a Superman story. Gibbons said he was available. When Schwartz told Gibbons he could also choose who wrote the story, he immediately requested Moore. "For the Man Who Has Everything" began to take shape.
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