Superman's Metropolis
| Superman's Metropolis | |
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Cover to Superman's Metropolis. Art by Ted McKeever.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1996 |
| Number of issues | 1 |
| Main character(s) | Clark Kent Lois Lane Lutor/Metallo |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier Roy Thomas |
| Artist(s) | Ted McKeever |
| Creator(s) |
Jean-Marc Lofficier Randy Lofficier |
Superman's Metropolis is a comic book, published by DC Comics, under its Elseworlds imprint. Written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, Randy Lofficier, Roy Thomas and illustrated by Ted McKeever. Based on German Expressionist cinema, the book is the first part in a trilogy, succeeded by Batman: Nosferatu and Wonder Woman: The Blue Amazon. The story of Superman's Metropolis is "patterned" after Fritz Lang's film Metropolis, which had in fact been the inspiration for the city in Superman canon.
DC characters which appear in the story (in order of appearance):
In an undetermined future, the giant city of Metropolis is starkly divided between upper classes who live in luxury and lower classes who toil under harsh conditions. Clark Kent-son, son of Jon Kent, the Great Architect and apparent Master of Metropolis, becomes aware of the social inequality after meeting Lois, a teacher from the undercity. He joins the workers to experience their daily lives, then begs his father to improve their lot, but in vain. In reality, the city is in thrall to the scientist Lutor, an old colleague of Jon Kent from before the "time of smoke and soot" that came before the foundation of Metropolis. Both Jon and Lutor fell in love with the same woman, Marta. When she chose Jon over Lutor, the scientist killed her, then used advanced hypnosis to turn Jon into his mind-slave.
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