Superman gets the Treasury sized edition in Superman Treasury 2025: Hero for All #1 by Dan Jurgens! He had created the ultimate splash page comic book that finished “The Death of Superman” storyline in Superman #75 (1992). The regular cover is by Bruno Redondo that has Superman orbiting the Earth with a wink, another angle to the ending of Superman The Movie (1978). Redondo is the interior artist. Jurgens cover has Superman flying from Earth surrounded by phantom faces of the people of Earth while two beams strike our homeworld. One of my favorites is the cover by Scott Koblish which has Superman flying nezt to Krypto and above a collage of all of this allies, Wonder Woman, Batman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, all of the variations of Kryptonians including Supergirl and Power Girl!
On the back cover is Superman’s legendary villains with General Zod, above him is Bizarro, Black Adam, and Metallo’s Skull Ship, plus Cyborg Superman, Doomsday, Darkseid, Lex Luthor at the bottom. There have recently been facsimile editions of the Sueprman comics including All-New Collector’s Edition Superman vs. Shazam!, Superman vs. The Flash, and Superman vs. Wonder Woman! The Treasury size, 10” x 13.5”, is just the right size to give an epic scale to the comic book! “Superman: Hero For All” has a story by Dan Jurgens and Bruno Redondo’s art. We see the tall building of the Daily Planet, golden in the setting sun, shadows cutting across the lower building. Nice colors by Adriano Lucas. A narrator, an alien?, says that Earth’s humans call him Superman. On the roof of the buildingm we see Jon Kent, created by Jurgens, in Convergence: Superman #2 (2015), Clark, his parents, and Lois Lane.
These are long horizontal panels that match the height of the Daily Planet building! Clark tells his parents that he wants them to take Jon to Smallville. Jon wants to stay in Metropolis, but his mother reminds him that the sirens are warnings about an attack. Jon is a teen and I don’t think it is that his father doesn’t think he could help, it seems like he doesn’t want another thing to worry about in the alien invasion. Clark puts his arm on his son and Jon wonders about his mother, but Lois has a job to do. A closeup of Lois and Clark together with sun to the side. Then we get Clark revealing his chest insignia breaking through the panel! Then, we get a two page splash cut by the story credits on the bottom. Superman flyi towards a massive mecha crushing Metropolis streets. The alien narration noted that Earth’s heroes think of Superman as an equal. Defeating Superman will let them take care of the other heroes. Superman is always the front line. Cries go up from the street of citizens shouting out the arrival of Superman!
The alien mecha throws a fist which is caught by Superman in time to stop it from striking a building. Superman blasts it with his heat vision with no effext. He senses something. The robot’s eye blast shears through a building top! Citizens note Superman streaking away, then find him sliding down a street, closeup of his fist, and setting his boots. Then, a powerful panel of Superman flying with speed effects by Redondo, and Lucas! A red streak as Superman rams into the chest of the mecha! It unleashes a chest beam that gives Superman a headache, but he struggles on to knock the mecha into the harbor. The dark mecha shorts out at the bottom of the silty floor. Closeup as Superman’s fist smashes open the giant rogot! He zooms up out of the sea. Superman descends to a shadowy street to see Lois. He senses something about the battle and then a voice is heard to agree with him. They turn to see Lex Luthor who tells them he watched the fight on his security monitors.
Luthor says that he detected a signal from the mecha “far from Earth.” Superman instantly zooms upwards as Luthor says he is “the loneliest being on Earth.” Luthor is highly intelligent, but Superman is the one factor he can’t understand, love it! Superman is flying above the Earth and thinking about the planet what he calls “the ideal place.” Then, he adds …to grow up” and then we see the farmhouse and barn at Smallville. The young Lana Lang, Peter Ross about to kick the soccer ball, Clark, and Lex is there. Lex is in a suit standing away from the blanket goal and soccer ball. The kicker is Pete Ross. Kenny Braverman pushes his way in front of Clark. He is a classmate who became the villain Conduit, introduced in Superman: The Man of Steel #0 (1994). Clark swing a kick that slames the ball into Lana! Clark has had years to adjust to his powers which is why he doesn’t crush fingers in a hand shake, etc. He tries to apologize when there is a call from Pa Kent. They turn to see a dark twister headed towards the house.
Pa Kent calls for them to get into the storm cellar. Lana is worried, but Ma Kent follows them down. Clark wonders about Pa Kent when a tornado wind slams him down! Ma Kent covers Clark until Lex notes that it is over. Clark goes out to check on Pa, then we see his shadowed hand dripping blood! Clark screams holding Pa’s body while Ma cries. A great nod to the other Superman film and I almost thought he was dead until I remembered we saw Jonathan Kent at the Daily Planet. Then, we see the ringed satellite, the Watchtower for the Justice League! Black Canary and Green Lantern are on monitor duty. Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, asks about the long-range sensor alert. Canary, Dinah Lance, says it is from the dark side of Mars. They discuss it when an emergency alert is sounded! A blast cuts through the Watchtower. The hull breach is sucking out air. Canary grabs Arrow’s ankle. He uses his bow to loose an arrow at the teleporter. They are taken into it and escape! The great alien ship overshadows the Watchtower. The cannons destroy the satellite. I like the Justice League guest stars and the power of these aliens. Superman For All is a cinematic Superman story that tests the Last Son of Krypton with a host of his supporting cast and guest stars, all from Dan Jurgens and Bruno Redondo!
Five War Corps Robots out of Five !
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