 Today on the show we're taking a look at the Adventures of Superman number 498 from January of 1993. If you know her for a friend, number one, so stay tuned. Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Ed and TV where I'll geek culture collides if you're new to the channel. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos. All right guys, as I said, today we're taking a look at the Adventures of Superman number 498 from January of 1993. If you know her for a friend, number one. As you can see, this is the second printing. The death of Superman in all related titles was a very strange time for DC Comics. It seemed like as long as it had to do with the death of Superman, everything sold out almost immediately to the point where they had to go in and print more. So you get like this one here, this death of Superman comic. As you can see, there's a number Romanumal 3 up there. That means it's the third printing. Okay. And then like this one, I'm not even sure what printing this one is. Let's take a look, shall we? This one actually does not say. So that means this is a first printing, just an alternate cover, which is pretty cool. So going on with the death of Superman or the funeral for a friend. Funeral for a friend was collected in the trade paperback World Without Superman. However, the trade paperback did not include Justice League America number 70 or the epilogue for Funeral for a Friend. It mainly only collected the titles that had the Funeral for a Friend and the number after it. So Funeral for a Friend number one picks up immediately where death of Superman left off. Let's go ahead, open this up and take a look. And this coming December, once I have more time off again, I will be doing a retelling of the death of Superman, Funeral for a Friend, reign of the Superman, and the return of Superman. I actually, just last night, I'm filming this Saturday morning. This will be up on Wednesday. Since Comixology was having their Superman cell in celebration of 80 years of Superman, they had the entire death and return of Superman for trade paperbacks for $5.99 each. That was a price I could not pass up. I had always wanted all four graphic novels. And this is for the digital copies. I went ahead and bought all four just so that come next December, when I got more time off since I just started back to work, my season is really kicking into high gear. But next December, I'll be able to do the retellings of the death of Superman, Funeral for a Friend, reign of the Superman, and the return of Superman. So anyway, until then, this is what you're going to get on com again TV. Unless the other guys do something a little different. They want to edit it or whatever, edit their videos. That's fine. I'm cool with that. For me, these are the type of videos you're going to get during the spring, summer, and into the fall, until my season stop ends. And then you'll get more of the other type of videos. Now, that's not saying I won't do the history of superheroes anymore, until then. I may do a couple here and there. In fact, I've got two or three planned. One of them is the history and origin of Miss Fury. We've got Voltron history, Princess Allura, and Keith planned. So I know you guys really enjoy the Voltron videos. They are some of our most viewed videos on the channel. So with that being said, let's get into this. I really like this picture. It's kind of a, it's based around Jimmy Olson taking pictures after Superman's death. It's by Ordoa, Grimit, and Hazelwood. This is a second printing, as you can see right up here. And I showed you on the, on the plastic. As you can see here, it picks up immediately after Superman died. There's Bloodwind, Holden Ice, she's been injured, Guardian, Jimmy Olson, Lois Lane, and Superman. I have to say, I know I said this during the death of Superman, trade paperback review. I really enjoy the artwork in this series. You just don't get artwork like this anymore. I don't know, just something about it really engages me. And I really like the look of Bloodwind, who, as many of you know, most of you probably don't know, at this point, is actually the Martian Manhunter. In fact, Bloodwind, in fact Bloodwind, the real Bloodwind wouldn't actually appear in comics until Justice League America number 76. At least that's what DC Comics Bloodwind chronology says. I've seen other places where it's a different title, but because that's the official DC Comics chronology, we're going to go with that. And anyway, the Guardian here, for those of you who watched the CW Supergirl, that's actually who Jimmy Olson's character is based on. They kind of merged both Jimmy Olson and the Guardian together. Here, you know, Bloodwind has already stated that he doesn't sense any life in Superman. And I forget his name. Dublix, something like that. Anyway, he also agrees with Bloodwind. He doesn't detect any signs of brain activity or anything in Superman as well. Bloodwind ends up taking ice to the hospital. Jimmy has to kind of pull Lois away. Guardian tries to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, however, because of Superman's physiology. It's like trying to blow into a titanium gas tank. In fact, his lungs are like steel tanks. All I've got doesn't even get a rise out of his chest. And Cat Grant has to kind of snap Lois out of it. If anyone's going to write the story of Superman's death, it's got to be Lois, according to Cat. Got Dan Turpin here, who's really upset. You know, in the animated series, and I'm not sure about the comic, I'm pretty sure, though, that in the comic, he didn't really like Superman as much either. Here we see the true form of this version of Supergirl. Lex Luthor Jr. comes along and takes her away. Here's the scene where Cat tells Lois to snap out of it. She's got to be the one to report it. We have Crime Buster here, or Gang Buster, I mean, I'm sorry, who is in a relationship with Cat Grant. He's watching her son. Her son just kind of says, yeah, Superman's dead. No big deal. He was a weenie anyways, and kind of upsets Gang Buster. And Gang Buster is really upset because Cat got him to retire as Gang Buster. He really wishes he could have been out there helping, but you know, Gang Buster is really one of those 90s era characters. Just a street level vigilante who might do okay in comics today. He was kind of a D-list character back in the day, though. First scene of Jonathan Martha Kent embracing after news of their son's death. And here we see the shape shifter transforming back into Supergirl. Cadmus taking away Doomsday's body. They have to use gravitational discs or whatever to do that. Bibbo comes with Dr. Mill Hamilton to kind of try and help resuscitate Superman, which pretty much would require a lightning bolt, but it overloads, and they're not able to really do much. Here we have Bane, the man who finally breaks the Batman. I will cover this. I don't know if it'll be this year or not, but I will eventually cover each issue of the Breaking of the Bat Nightfall, Night's End, Night Quest, all those. But I really enjoyed the death of Superman, funeral for a friend, reign of the Superman, and return of Superman. Story arc. Very, very well done comics. You can tell that Dan Jurgens was pretty much the one in charge over all of this. His characters, Dan Jurgens created Bloodwind, he created Doomsday, you know, and he pretty much created this storyline. I'm not trying to take anything away from any of the other creators or anything like that, but Dan Jurgens' signature is all over all four storylines. Even if he didn't actually write it, you know, he is the spiritual advisor. He is the spirit of the death and return of Superman. So, like I said, I really enjoyed this. It gave us a little bit more insight into what happened immediately following Superman's fall to Doomsday. Up next, we'll be taking a look at Justice League America number 70, which is a tie-in to funeral for a friend. It shows it takes place at the same time as Adventures of Superman number 498 at the exact same time. It picks up with Bloodwind and Ice, pretty much in the same scene as this one picked up with, and then instead of focusing on Lois and all the other people in Metropolis, we then move in and focus on everyone who's ever been a part of the Justice League. So, we'll take a look at that, and I hope you'll join us here when we do that video. We're going to cover each issue of funeral for a friend, and then we're going to try and cover each issue of the reign of the Superman. And I'm going to have to do the return of Superman maybe, perhaps in a different format, I'm not sure. I'm trying to get all the physical comics so I can do reviews like this very casually. Like I said, I don't have a whole lot of time anymore, at least until the season over with, which is going to be a few months. Spring is just starting. So, anyway, there you have it guys. The Adventures of Superman number 498. Funeral for a friend, number one. This was from January of 1993. This was the second printing. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Make sure and tune in next time for Justice League America number 70, which will be on the air for you guys tomorrow. For me, I'm going to be recording it next. And as I said today, Saturday, it'll upload or it'll be published on Thursday. So, make sure if you like this content to hit the subscribe button and the notification bell. So, you stay up to date on all our videos. 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