 What we're gonna do in this video is have a look through the first few appearances of Doomsday and this story arc is basically the death of Superman which occurred in the early 1990s and It was one of the most pinnacle moments in comic book history. It turned out to be a circus once the mainstream media got our Gotta Gotta wind of it and there was a lot of a lot of buzz around what was going on with the death of Superman and Basically what happened with the Doomsday storyline was before the story the Doomsday storyline officially began Doomsday made appearances In the first appearance being in Superman the man of steel number 17 and It went on to Superman number 73 adventures of Superman number 496 and Superman action comics number 683 and it was a it was an amazing Story or it was actually a brilliant. It was it was very emotional and had an awesome build up to it and amazing conclusion really and What they did was basically introduced Doomsday in all four of these issues Just one page At the end as a teaser sort of cliffhanger of what was coming and What happened after that was basically Doomsday made his first appearance in Superman man of steel number 18 and Back then I'm not sure if that's the case right now. I'm not reading any Superman's but back then the way The Superman storylines went the Superman books work went They were basically printing four different titles for Superman and the way you knew What the reading order was? They provide a triangle and every year the number would start with number one And it would cycle through all the way to the end of the year So the store the reading for these things goes from this is 1992 It came out with number 41 is the first appearance of Doomsday and then it went up to Number 42 as you can see right there And then number 43 with the adventures of Superman number 44 right there and the Doomsday storyline officially kicked in with Number 45 and this one being the first full appearance of Doomsday and after that after this issue The Doomsday storyline crossed over into the Justice League of America and this one is actually Second full appearance of Doomsday and this storyline in Justice League is In my opinion, it's actually more important than the man of steel number 18 because it's in Justice League of America number 69 where Booster Gold actually names Doomsday as Doomsday and his appearance here is I believe is much longer than Superman man of steel and The storyline from there basically went into the rest of the Superman titles and it concluded with the death of Superman being I Believe this Superman number 75 and this is the bagged version Of the issue where you know, I haven't cracked this one open I did crack open one of them and you know it came with a car and the poster and This this storyline was a death of Superman. Okay, so what we're going to do right now is actually Have a read through the first Four issues where Doomsday appears and just take a look at the build up To the Superman that the Doomsday storyline and you know, maybe we'll flip through this one as well but what I want to do is show you the The cliffhangers the teasers the pages that they had in all these four issues And it was brilliant the way they did it. It was a very nice build up took weeks for it to to unfold Doomsday storyline the death of Superman and It it sort of was a pinnacle moment Definitely for the 1990s and definitely in comic book history. It's a it was a brilliant story arc I'm very emotional most definitely and Everybody that was reading comic books at the time Read the death of Superman. I didn't know anyone that wasn't reading it Okay, so let's put the rest of these books on one side and slowly crank crack these open and and Take a look at What this is all about right so this is Superman man of steel number four number 17 and it's the 41st story in For Superman for that year right the 41st issue, I guess So let's crack this open We're not gonna read through the Superman story in this Maybe we'll flip through it really quickly and just take a look but basically what it was is They told different stories and you know Superman doing his thing and The last page was basically doomsday Punching through his His containment, I guess and it's interesting in this one They had a creature appearing in this one that was doomsday like In appearance but was nowhere near as powerful as doomsday So it was an interesting teaser They showed a hand of this creature Silhouettes and this was the creature take a look at this and if you know doomsday this is sort of Doomsday Esk, I guess but this one looks humorous compared to what doomsday was or is and Doomsday is actually From what I understand is the only Full of Superman that Superman actually fears in the comic books Because he's so powerful Let me take a look at this the doomsday. Well the joke that looks like doomsday, I guess This series the Batman adventures was actually very good the comics that came out Harley Quinn made her first appearance in Batman adventures. I believe it's number 12 again So it's interesting Superman, you know fights this character that looks like doomsday and Beats them easily and that's the page where doomsday appears. So what we'll do we'll read the last panel To The introduction of doomsday and it's actually very interesting because these panels were for the sort of foreshadowing What was to come In this one, I'm not sure what the storyline is, but let's just read the last panel If they don't hand it over fast, we reach our fists We reach out our fists and we take it and The fist is punching. I forget what these things are called In the caves and then you flip and doomsday is punching His containment, right? Somewhere else as the text says From the outside you can hear the cring at the bottom doomsday is coming So this was this is considered to be the first appearance of doomsday and it is The first appearance of doomsday and it looks like doomsday's Claws are coming out of his his fists Somewhere else gentle doomsday is coming and this is a memorial for Joe Schuster That I guess passed away in 1992 Jerry Siegel the comic book Field has lost a great artist at a true pioneer. He'll be sorely missed So keep this panel in mind for this page in mind cliffhanger and in the next issue in Superman Man of Steel number 18 is where doomsday makes his first appearance and this is And this issues it is a beautiful covers one one of my favorite covers for Superman that I've seen And that I have It's brilliant really so let's back the sip again and Take a look at the next issue was The number 41 so we're at number 42 and This is Superman number 73 and it's the second Cameo appearance of Doomsday, right like this open and again Superman just has some kind of story Going on with this and all of these issues are mint copies. I've actually never Flipped through these ones before so these are brand-new. I bought these I And when I figured out that the doomsday storyline was going I I jumped on the doomsday storyline right away I found that the build-up for it was interesting and When I found out that these were actually the first appearances of doomsday. I went into the the bins the Previous issues the back bins and pulled out You know a few copies of each one of these because I wanted the first few cameo appearances Booster gold Superman having an adventure I guess so let's go Let's start off on the back and just go and read the last panel read the panel previous to the doomsday Cameo the never-ending battle ends. Here's the next page And let's read the last panel. I should let's read the last three panels Stand aside Stand aside give us room. No pause better try CPR no response not even a twitch I guess this person's had a heart attack or something I'm sorry folks look like massive cardiac arrest Nothing we can do Nothing anyone can do. Oh, that's Superman right there Except the linear men They can bring the dead back to life. No wonder this they scare me It's over grandpa. So the last panels For the build-up for these issues of Superman there were sort of foreshadowing what was to come It was brilliantly put together and we go to the last page again and again Somewhere else you see holes being punched Into the metal containment from the outside you see it appearing. So his claws are coming out Louder louder doomsday is coming. Nice teaser. I can count your appearance of Doomsday it dates for these these would have been either coming on the same week or one week apart So four weeks in a month they would come come out one week lagging possibly I can't remember but this is November November 1992 and this is number 43, right and that's you know chronological order That's how they organized it. You knew which order to read the Superman issues titles And again, this is November and this is adventures of Superman number 496 Been running for a very long time this this series And again, this is a beautiful mint copy Never been read down reading it for the first time or as grading goes All of these books would be Easily 9.2 9.4 Beautiful copies if you had a seriously Harsh greater, maybe they would grade them as 9, but I can't see that Again Superman is having some kind of adventure So what we'll do is we'll go to the last page again Doomsday is coming For Superman, let's read the last two panels of this. Okay, you're sharper than I've given you credit for Bit of a backhand and compliment, but I'll take it Better watch it. Don't want to take an enemy. Don't so he's uh, I believe this is Lex Luthor With hair Yes, it is Lex Luthor. Take a look at this. He's calling him Lex So he's thinking in his head Better watch it. Don't want to make an enemy of him No offense intended. Sorry And Superman replies if I depended solely on brawn my crime-finding career Wouldn't have lasted 20 minutes Lex So again foreshadowing that They're about to kill Superman and again The words Somewhere else looking through. Yeah, you can see his claws Doomsday is coming So this would be the third cameo appearance of uh, doomsday Just the fist, right? Oh, let's throw this back in the cover And take a look at the next issue. This is Superman in action comics Number 683, right? And this one again is November 1992, right? And number 44 in the series for the Superman titles And this is a beautiful cover as well. Actually, I really like this cover This one too is beautiful copy a little bit of spine stress. You're just very little Give this uh At least the nine 9.2 Corners look extremely sharp. So again, let's flip to the back and see uh Joe Schuster memorial take a look. Let's read the last two panels again Actually, let's read the last three I guess. Yeah Wait a minute. Wait a minute Just like I just like the prep said you mean that bald Swear word actually turned himself in Sure, I did and watch your language I Ain't no brain. I ain't no brain surgeon, but I'm smart enough not to cross superman I never doubted that for a moment Ah, when I give you officers a hand taking the jackal down I guess maybe this is the jackal. Oh, this is the jackal. Hey be our guest Too bad Harry looks Too bad, Harry looks like you found out the hard way It don't matter how tough you are. There's always someone out there who's bigger and stronger Again serious foreshadowing for uh What was to come in the superman titles with uh the death of superman, right? And then you flip the page doomsday still punching in this containment, right somewhere else Crank Crank this day is here it says So doomsday is free And if you recall, uh, when we read the valiant comics magnus number five a lot of these There was no sound effects words for the action that was happening. It was Um, it was very different than a lot of the mainstream comics that were being put out with sound effects I actually like both. I I do like the sound effects here the way it's done and I also like the Simplicity of what valiant was doing So there's a whole month of build-up of Cameo appearances of just doomsday fist punching through And getting free of his containment. Uh, that was a build-up to doomsday and this is the fourth cameo appearance of Doomsday and the superman titles, right? Let's throw this back as well. Maybe what we'll do is Look through the first full appearance of doomsday and see what's going on in that We won't read it but Let's just Take these so these are the first four cameo appearance of doomsday, right? And it goes from number 41 To number 44 in the story arc. So superman man of steel Number 18 and again, this is a beautiful beautiful copy Absolutely mint and there is I believe for as far as movies go There is a doomsday movie being made or the script is already done for it. I think and that's one going to be One of the superman movies that's going to come out in two or three years in 2017 or 18 So that's Let's flip through this one and just read the doomsday doomsday pages uh, doomsday panels The beginning of the end Doomsday and the official death of superman the doomsday storyline went from number 45 in the series And I can't I can't remember how far down it went somewhere on earth doomsday punching through this containment He's totally free Birds are flying away squawk squawk squatching through the earth coming through changes a little bit, right? It's not metal anymore The earth breaks earth breaks on the ground beautiful really Doomsday on one side superman on the other Part one and there's the doomsday look like The one superman beat up before right in the previous issue. This is Man of steel number 18. It was a man of steel number 17, right that this story art was going Here's another doomsday page. Let's take a look and you can tell the comic. It's just sitting, right? It's got serious integrity like it hasn't been read before Elsewhere it says Doomsday just standing looking chirp chirp chirp the birds chirp chirp chirp laughing away Superman's going along and it's about his business, right? Fighting this guy doomsday look alike weak and doomsday just wants to kill he wants to destroy life Trees anything, right? Life you got the grenade. Oh superman just Puts a grenade in this guy's mouth Look at this Boom grenade blows up in his mouth one. That's it knocked out with a grenade Can't do that with doomsday Doomsday again elsewhere highway traffic doomsday goes up. Oh, did we miss a page miss a page? So that's it. So there's traffic Doomsday is coming destroy the bridge or something. It's still humorous I think that's loosely kicking superman in the bum So this is Last panel before doomsday starts again the last couple of pages teasers, right? So let's see what this says You know grub There's work. There's worse down here than war World worlders war war worlders tongue twister You think I could tell them my duty as correspondent and all nah Bloodthirst is our problem But it's good to know if we can't handle them We can all we can call in superman dependent on superman. You can always call superman. He's always around Except after doomsday again. I don't want to take this out Elsewhere truck zooming by What the heck? Hey, buddy, get out of the way What do you think you're? It just stops the truck and his tracks. There's doomsday right there in the middle of the highway Swarm The sound effects are hard to read. He's just laughing and walking away One arm tied behind his back is on fire State troopers chuck johnson calling state troop I read you mr. Johnson. What is it? Big monster Big monster flip moons rig one hand time behind his back It's burning fit to pop Did you say monster? Yeah big ass Big as a Something else swear word Hello, what have we here? The dudes tearing up the whole interstate. He's heading east Please you've got to stop him Now this sounds like a job for the justice league. I guess this is the guy who calls him the justice league continued in justice league america number 69 then in superman 74 Both on sale next week. So we'll go uh to justice league america 69 and take a look at that and that issue is Very very crucial because In that issue Booster gold actually names Doomsday doomsday As far as I know, that's the first time he was called doomsday So it's an issue number 69 of the justice league of america That uh doomsday is named And I believe the appearances of Superman or the appearance of doomsday are There's way more action with doomsday in this issue than there is in this issue So this is the second full appearance of doomsday this year. It's this league number 69 It's a snag the comics and this is a very very important issue. It's actually Not expensive at all to grab here Grab copies of these Which I'm very surprised on So let's just flip through this and see See what the action is. We're not going to read it. We'll flip through it because it's This is a brilliant story arc and it's worth reading If you want to If you want a fantastic story of An emotional story of the death of superman and it was very well done. So doomsday is Going at it just destroying everything in his path comes across a deer Grants the deer by the neck and squishes it. Oh look at this Just brutal, right? Grab this neck pulls him up. Look at the deer kicking question mark for doomsday. Here comes the justice league Throws a stick up Goes through bull beetle ship Rashing down and what we'll do We'll go fairly through this fairly quickly And just go to a part where it boosts to gold calls him doomsday Because I think that is very important Very important moment. This guy Gardner Going in head first as he does always right He gets beat up a lot Batman has a habit of beating him up too Take your pick bury your burial or cremation. Look at this doomsday still has one hand tied behind his back He grabbed guy Gardner all so fast. I didn't even see him Stopped halfway sentence halfway through the word, right? Some guy Gardner like this Punches him in the head Very violent. Just grabs him right ahead He's about to kill him and he's just laughing This guy Gardner His friends came to the rescue, right? Let his beat up. He's done They're all trying to take him down. They think they can work something anyway But I think throughout this whole thing superman has given an interview Yeah, he's just given an interview on tv talking about I guess what his responsibilities are, right? He's just destroying them, right? doomsday Here's the issue numbers for doomsday Superman triangle numbers 45 From 1992 number 45 through till 1993 with number two Man of steel number 18 through superman number 75 And that's the black cover one that we uh, we took a look at right doomsday's grabbed Blue Beetle, right? Just destroying him. Look at this. Look at his face. Perhaps I'm by the legs They're like toys Oh, the news is getting to Superman that there's a special report. Justice leak is Getting beat up. They're in trouble Wow, look at Blue Beetle just tossed around like a little rag I think it may be too late booster But I pray I'm wrong. Oh, they're worried that it might be dead Booster gold. No He gets angry. That's it Have reports of the justice league battling a heinous monster at a Lex oil refinery in Ohio Reports indicate the league is unable to stop this destructive stampede Superman. I have to go So Superman's coming to the rescue, right? I'm tired of playing tag with you ugly Let's see you walk away from a Full intensity blast. So booster gold is happening with a blast He doesn't even budge doomsday. Look at this He's still coming got to get my force field up before Turning on his force field like the punch coming in and he's laughing Ha ha ha just sends booster gold flying. Here comes Superman Let's read this last I think this is the last couple of pages How could one man stand against the whole league? Soon as I'm up over in the horizon I'll be able to check things out with my telescopic vision This booster gold thinking man. I just barely raised my force field in time The force of his blow is overpowering my flight ring If you can do this to me Imagine what he what he did to the beetle to beetle Wonder if that rubber-suited powerhouse is biological or some kind of doomsday machine Here's the first time that it's referred to as doomsday Coal that That's far enough booster That's Superman grabbing them you panel of Superman. Let's see what Superman says I hear you people are having some trouble trouble isn't the word Superman. I'm telling you right now. It's like doomsday is here Continued in Superman number 74. Don't you dare miss it? So this is As far as I know the first time doomsday was called doomsday So pretty important issue and uh, definitely a full appearance of doomsday Part of the death of superman story arc Right. I believe the only one that was outside of the superman titles This was the only outside story until the funeral for a friend and stuff, right? And then after this we have Well, after this we have a few of the issues of superman and the death of superman concludes and Superman number 75 and it's a fantastic storyline Very very emotional and it's a beautiful cover and in this plastic bag that this is sealed and in the bag there's, um, there's, uh There's a card. There's a poster. Um, I can't remember what else was in here Right. Take this out. It's a sealed bag Superman memorial set Superman with fold out splash back cover Full color memorial poster full color commemorative stamp daily planet obituary Black morning arm man Exclusive sky skybox trading card This story arc, uh, including the four pages The four cameo appearance of dune's day They are, uh, available through trade paper back if you feel like reading them So you don't have to go back and collect all the floppy's But this is basically the dune's day story arc with the first appearance Cameo appearance in superman man of stale number 17 Right. I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now