Superman: Eradication - The Origin of the Eradicator

DECIPHERING DC

Writers: Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway

Artists: Dan Jurgens, Kerry Gammill, Jerry Ordway, George Perez, Dennis Janke, Brett Breeding, Art Thibert and Andy Kubert

Collects: Adventures of Superman issues 460, 464, 465, Superman issues 41, 42 and Action Comics issues 651, 652.

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Welcome to another edition of Deciphering DC as we continue our look into Superman as he runs through the nineties. The tone and feeling of the soap-opera stylings of a weekly book had been established some time ago to give us a more or less continuous story, as certain authors did carry on and advance a few plot points in their own series.
This would continue throughout the nineties, until every one of these creators would leave their titles. Jerry Ordway was the first to leave, then Roger Stern and finally Dan Jurgens, signaling the end of an era, all to be replaced by Jeph Loeb, Joe Kelly, Stuart Immonen and Mark Schultz to begin the "new look Superman" (best epitomized by Ed McGuinness' version of Superman). But here, we're get ting ahead of ourselves.

Superman: Exile!

DECIPHERING DC

Writers: Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens, George Perez, Jerry Ordway

Artists: Dan Jurgens, Jerry Ordway, Kerry Gammill, George Perez, Mike Mignola, Curt Swan, Brett Breeding, Dennis Janke, John Statema

Collects: Superman issues 28-30, 32, 33, Adventures of Superman issues 451-456 and Action Comics issues 643 and Annual 2

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Welcome to another chapter of Deciphering DC! After a lengthy gap comes the next collection in the monthly Superman series, made even more profound by the fact that the only Superman collection before this one, when it came out first, was the original Man of Steel collection....the other volumes were collected much, much later. There's a lot of catching up to be done from where we left off.