COMICS: ACTION COMICS #9 To Reveal An African-American SUPERMAN

Action Comics #9 will reveal an alternate Superman who happens to be black. Is this a response to Miles Morales?

By MarkJulian - Feb 10, 2012 07:02 AM EST

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With ACTION COMICS #9, two acclaimed guest artists will explore an alternate Earth and the story of its Kryptonian protector. Multiple Eisner Award-winning artist Gene Ha will be a guest artist for the primary plot, penned by regular series writer Grant Morrison. And fresh from his recent work on THE SHADE miniseries, artist Cully Hamner will illustrate the issue’s back-up story, written by Sholly Fisch.

Parallel worlds come to the forefront of DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 “Second Wave,” with titles such as EARTH 2 and WORLDS’ FINEST exploring the adventures of heroes on alternate Earths. ACTION COMICS #9 sets up the multiverse with a standalone story of a Superman from another Earth, who must fight a monster from yet another parallel world. But this isn’t just any monster; it’s a Superman surrogate known as Superdoom, twisted into an unstoppable agent of evil.

The back-up story will also feature an adventure of this alternate Superman, set on his parallel Earth.

Regular series artist Rags Morales will return for ACTION COMICS #10 in June. In the meantime, check out Ha’s inks for ACTION COMICS #9.

Superman, also known as Clark Kent and Kal-El from Krypton, has been a continually published character. Following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, he went through a distinctive reboot. To accompany discrepancies in the aging of Superman across several decades, his earliest stories were retroactively portrayed as having taken place on an alternative world called Earth-Two. The Multiverse used to explain these characters later gave way to an "evil" version of Superman from Earth-Three and other "What if?" scenarios. The Multiverse system was discarded in the Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries, following which an adaptation of the mainstream "Earth-One" Superman was rebooted in John Byrne's The Man of Steel miniseries in 1986. Variations in the character were eventually defined by the varying Superman origin stories, such as the subsequent Superman: Birthright reboot by Mark Waid in 2003.

The single-Earth continuity would still allow for the dichotomy of a good and evil Superman by introducing an alternative version of Superman's Earth-Three double, Ultraman in the Antimatter Universe surviving the Crisis, as presented in JLA: Earth 2. Alternative Supermen were also depicted using literary devices such as time travel and "Hypertime". The subsequent sequel to Crisis titled Infinite Crisis would see a brief return of the Golden Age Superman, Kal-L as well as the teenage Superman of a world without heroes who survived the original Crisis. Due to the events of the sequel, as revealed in the subsequent weekly maxiseries 52, a new Multiverse, consisting of fifty-two alternative Earths, was created with most worlds featuring new alternative depictions of Superman.

In addition to these "official" Supermen, variations of the standard character, a number of characters have assumed the title of Superman in many variant stories set in both primary and alternative continuity. Following the storyline of The Death of Superman and during the subsequent Reign of the Supermen storyline, a number of characters claimed the mantle. In addition, Bizarro, for instance, is an imperfect duplicate of Superman. Other members of Superman's family of characters have borne the Super- prefix, including Supergirl, Superdog and, in some instances, Superwoman. Outside comics published by DC Comics, the notoriety of the Superman or "Übermensch" archetype makes the character a popular figure to be represented with an analogue in entirely unrelated continuities, for example rival publisher Marvel Comics parodies Superman through the character Hyperion.

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PaulRom - 2/10/2012, 8:08 AM

Wait til people start saying that DC is ripping off Marvel. :D

TheGreenRanger - 2/10/2012, 8:11 AM

Obama Man?

McGribble - 2/10/2012, 8:19 AM

If it is anyone, It should be Cam Newton!!! If it's Obama Man, does the S stand for Socialism?

mikesinuman - 2/10/2012, 8:20 AM

S is for SHIT!

comicb00kguy - 2/10/2012, 8:21 AM

I thought one of the points of this big reboot was to get rid of all those multiple earths with their myriad of variations of all those characters.

Personally, as long as this is presented as an alternate reality storyline, it doesn't bother me a bit. Part of the fun of alternate realities is finding a new twist on a familiar character (as long as it isn't an excuse to turn them all into depraved, despicable, and debaucherous filthbags like what the Ultimate universe became)

This is a lot different than that stupid "new Spider-Man" because this is not being presented as a permanent change to the character, just as an alternate reality story.

Daniellantern - 2/10/2012, 8:22 AM

No offense. So, Superman's father is Luke Cage? Yeah, afro Jor-El.

seamuskeaneart - 2/10/2012, 8:22 AM

"Action Comics #9 will reveal an alternate Superman who happens to be black. Is this a response to Miles Morales?"

ammm no, there has been an alternative earth with a Black Superman at DC for a long long time, he even apeared in Final Crisis.

AlReg - 2/10/2012, 8:25 AM

I am glad others noticed it was the Superman in Final Crisis. Has nothing to do with Miles Morales. Hopefully it is a proper prelude to the Multiverse story Morrison has been working on.

SageMode - 2/10/2012, 8:30 AM

Let the mildly racist commentary commence...........

JackBauer - 2/10/2012, 8:33 AM

@McGribble - Cam Newton as Superman? Only if he gets paid to play, err I mean save the world ;)

MassExecutions - 2/10/2012, 8:38 AM

Just further evidence that we are now living in a post racial society! Right?

McGribble - 2/10/2012, 8:43 AM

JackBauer, I only brought it up for two reasons. 1. I am a die hard Carolina Panthers fan and 2. Cam newton has the Super Cam thing going on when he scores. And I saw this really good image a while back...

Odin - 2/10/2012, 8:43 AM

They are really looking an exuce to make star of next superman-reboot an african-american.

Dedpool - 2/10/2012, 8:46 AM

Why not just have Icon be more prevalent?!

MrWayne - 2/10/2012, 8:52 AM

if he had crashed in Kansas around the same time as Clark in the original I bet he would be a villain from growing up right before, and during the civil rights crap.

Geeksiah - 2/10/2012, 8:55 AM

man, this is straight up pandering

niknik - 2/10/2012, 9:02 AM

I hear they have shortened his name to "SUP MAN".

JatevinM - 2/10/2012, 9:06 AM

I swear the stereotypes and racism that some of you are exhibiting is stupid. In this day and age there is no excuse for being racist.

DividedIStand80 - 2/10/2012, 9:31 AM

The "S" should be grafitti'd on his chest. Is that racist?

TheAmarilloBlack - 2/10/2012, 9:43 AM

LOL@racist fan boys

Not even alternate Earth Supermen can be black...damn. So sad.

Looks like DC doesn't give a fock what you ignorant dix think, thankfully.

And for the record, even white Superman has some swag about him.

TheAmarilloBlack - 2/10/2012, 9:44 AM

@Nomis

She married Play, actually.

TheAmarilloBlack - 2/10/2012, 9:45 AM

@Mareado
Agreed on the Milestone point. Icon and Rocket need a redux.

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