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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: More Superman info
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Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 17:57:00 EST
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Nov 22 16:57:00 1985


The latest CBG has more information about Byrne's plans for Superman:

Byrne is "in charge of Superman. It's in his contract. No one else can
add to the mythos without Byrne's permission.

Dick Giordano will ink Byrne's pencils.

DC Comics Presents has been canceled, but there will be a new team-up comic
that Byrne will write but not draw.

Marv Wolfman will be writing Superman in Action [Blech! I *hated* Marv's
Superman stories.]

Julius Schwartz is no longer editing; Andrew Helfer will edit at least
Superman (or rather the title that replaces "Superman". They apparently
don't have a name for it yet.)

Only one piece of green kryptonite exists. There are no other colors.

Superman has no girl friend. "There's no way it could work."
[Byrne has clearly read "Man of steel, woman of kleenex".]

No time travel stories, although Superman CAN fly through space.

Superman will not have the powers of super-ventriloquism, super-hypnotism,
or similarly silly abilities.

Superman will have a very limited rogues gallery. Byrne is creating a new
Metallo, and Lex Luthor will still be around as Superman's greatest rival.
[It doesn't say if Byrne is going to get rid of Luthor's stupid looking
costume. I would assume he will.]

There will be no great effort to discover Superman's secret identity
because it does not occur to anyone that he has a secret identity.

There will be a Superboy and Supergirl, to protect DC's copyright,
but they will not be connected to Superman. Superman is the sole survivor
of Krypton.

			Scott McEwan
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan

"A flash in front of my eyes ... I blink ... open my eyes to ... discover I am
 a dog in a pickup truck full of garbage ... no one but me sees the lid blow
 off the can ... it's 14 miles to the dump ... this is ... at last ... heaven."