There is one storyline that changed comics and superheroes more than any other,

and this year it is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is time to discuss

the death of Superman because your geek history lesson is now in session.

Hello and welcome to Geek History Lesson. I'm Jason. My cape is going to fly on a stick in

mind. I'm Ashia Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university because you have

stumbled onto the podcast where we take one character construct or incredibly important

event in art culture and teach you everything you need to know about it in about an hour.

And this week, I guess we're doing something kind of a little different.

Not, I mean, sort of. Yes, no. Well, we're talking about a whole storyline,

but it's not a book club. Yeah, we're talking about the death of Superman.

Spoilers. I mean, it's in the title. But that is fair. There is a spoiler warning.

Superman dies for 30 year old comic story. 30 years ago. He got better.

He's fine. He got better. He got better. Okay, there is the dust. Someone in England is so

mad right now. I think I was pulling that from a movie. I can't remember which one, but there you go.

The death of Superman's storyline is of course one of DC Comics most iconic tales. It basically

forever changed the way that death operates. I would say not only in superhero comic books,

but in television and in movies, it was published between 1992 and 1993. And basically if you've

never read the storyline, this is going to be interesting. We're going to go through a lot of the

publication history about why they decided to kill off their basically most famous of

superheroes in 1992. And it's a really fascinating storyline. So the death of Superman's storyline,

we're going to talk about today. Of course, started with Superman's fatal battle with Doomsday,

which is called the Doomsday storyline. The superhero community's response to Superman's death,

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