Today in Comics History, June 16, 9998K: Oh, we can't have nice things

On this day in the Kryptonian year 9,998: Krypton goes kaplooie! I wouldn't use that phrasing around Superman, though.


from Super DC Calendar 1976 (DC, 1975), letters by Ben Oda




from "[The Origin of Superman]" in Action Comics (1938 series) #1 (DC, June 1938); script by Jerry Siegel; pencils, inks, and letters by Joe Shuster; colors by Strauss Engraving Company


from "[The Origin of Superman]" in Superman (1939 series) #1 (DC, Summer 1939); script by Jerry Siegel; pencils, inks, and letters by Joe Shuster; colors by Strauss Engraving Company


from "The Greatest Green Lantern of All!" in Superman (1939 series) #257 (DC, October 1972), idea by Neal Adams, script by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Dick Dillin, inks by Dick Giordano



from The Man of Steel (1986 series) #1 (DC, October 1986), script and pencils by John Byrne, inks by Dick Giordano, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by John Costanza


from World of Krypton (1987 series) #4 (DC, March 1988), script by John Byrne, pencils by Mike Mignola, inks by Carlos Garzón, colors by Petra Scotese, letters by John Workman


from Superman (1987 series) #18 (DC, June 1988), script by John Byrne, pencils by Mike Mignola, inks by Karl Kesel, colors by Petra Scotese, letters by Bill Oakley


from Action Comics Annual (1987 series) #2 (DC, June 1989); script by Jerry Ordway, George Pérez, and Roger Stern; art by you tell me; colors by Glenn Whitmore; letters by Bill Oakley


from The Man of Steel (2018 series) #2 (DC, August 2018), script by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils and inks by Evan "Doc" Shaner, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Josh Reed


from Man of Steel movie (Warner Bros., 2013), directed by Zack Snyder
Say, just who d'ya think it was who put the idea in Krypton to explode?


from "The Heart of a Star" in Sandman: Endless Nights (DC/Vertigo, November 2003); script by Neil Gaiman; penci.ls, inks, and colors by Miguelanxo Prado, letters by Todd Klein
So on this day, we all mourn the planet Krypton and should make up for it by saying sorry to Jor-El.


from Super DC Calendar 1976