Superman: The Man of Steel

Superman: The Man of Steel
Superman: The Man of Steel #1 (July 1991). Cover art by Jon Bogdanove.
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing while in publication
Publication date	July 1991–March 2003
Number of issues	136 (#1–134 plus issues numbered 0 and 1,000,000) and 6 Annuals
Main character(s)	Superman
Creative team
Writer(s)	Mark Schultz, Louise Simonson
Penciller(s)	Jon Bogdanove, Doug Mahnke
Inker(s)	Dennis Janke, Tom Nguyen

Superman: The Man of Steel is a monthly American comic book series that ran 136 issues from 1991 to 2003, featuring Superman and published by DC Comics. As a result of introducing this series alongside its already existing titles, DC Comics was able to publish a new Superman comic each week. Included in these 136 issues were two special issues: #0 (October 1994, published between issues #37 and #38) and #1,000,000 (November 1998, published between issues #83 and #84), which were tie-ins to Zero Hour: Crisis in Time and DC One Million.

The first issue was written by Louise Simonson and featured pencils by Jon Bogdanove, Tom Grummett, Bob McLeod, and Dan Jurgens. Inks were by Dennis Janke, Jerry Ordway, and Brett Breeding. Simonson wrote issues #1-56, 59-83, 86, #0 and Annuals #2, 4, and 6 from 1991 to 1999. Bogdanove pencilled issues #1-68, 75-82, 85, and #0 during the same period and returned for the final issue, #134, in 2003.

Issues #9 and 10 were part of the "Panic in the Sky" storyline in 1992. Issues #22 through 26 were a part of "The Reign of the Supermen" storyline which received the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for "Favorite Comic-Book Story" for 1993. After his introduction in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993),Steel briefly became the starring character of the Superman: The Man of Steel series. Issue #30 (Feb. 1994) had a variant edition packaged in a polybag. The logo and all cover copy were printed on the bag and vinyl clings (similar to Colorforms) were included for a do-it-yourself front and back cover. Writer Mark Schultz and artist Doug Mahnke became the new creative team on the title with issue #87 (March 1999). Schultz and Mahnke introduced a new version of Superman's Fortress of Solitude in issue #100 (May 2000).