The Superman Monster
| The Superman Monster | |
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Cover to Superman Monster
Art by Anthony Williams and Tom Palmer |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Format | One-shot |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Number of issues | 1 |
| Main character(s) | Superman Vicktor Luthor Eloise Edge |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Dan Abnett Andy Lanning |
| Artist(s) |
Anthony Williams Tom Palmer |
The Superman Monster is a comic book Elseworlds story, published by DC Comics. The story combined the elements of the Superman mythos with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein where that version of Superman is similar to Frankenstein's monster. Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, with art by Anthony Williams and Tom Palmer. The Superman Monster is the sequel to the DC Comics Elseworlds comic book Batman: Two Faces.
At the Gotham City, Iceberg Lounge in 1888, newspaper editor Peregrine White entices his friend, Constable James Gordon, with a tale set five years ago in a small town in Switzerland, called Ingolstadt.
Philosophy student and scientist Vicktor Luthor is kicked out of Ingolstadt College after it is revealed that he had been conducting unorthodox and rather sacrilegious experiments as misguided attempts at reviving the dead. Afterwards, he began isolating himself from the world, and from his fiancé Eloise Edge, the daughter of Burgomaster Edge, in order to conduct his experiments away from prying eyes.
Two weeks later, Vicktor storms out of his engagement party when he witnesses a strange object fall from the sky and crash in the woods. The object is in fact a rocket from a doomed planet named Krypton, and inside is the dead remains of an infant. A recorded projection from the rocket reveals itself to be a projection of Jor-El, a scientist from Krypton who knew of his planet's certain destruction, so he sent in his son Kal-El to another planet in order for him to live. Jor-El programmed the projection to teach his son about Krypton's history, its science, and its technology. Vicktor decides to use this to his advantage, and constructs a Revival Matrix, meant to bring life into that which is dead. Buying body parts from a graverobber, whom he later kills, Vicktor builds a brand-new human being and brings it to life. Unfortunately, the process does not go as he planned, and his creation bears less a resemblance to a human being and more to that of a monster with chalky white skin. Horrified by his creation, Vicktor accidentally starts a fire in his lab, when the creature saves him from destruction using superhuman powers, and flies both his creator and himself away, only to be struck by lightning and cast into the forest.
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