Anyway, on my phone.
Superman's death in comics wasn't the story. The real story was about how the world felt he was outdated, why the world needed him, and his return. Also, he returned with no powers and proved he was just as brave without them.
The actual comics went into the story of his death and then were actually cancelled. It really was a world without a Superman. It wasn't "Exactly ONE issue later" like Max said.
DC always said back then, yeah it's easy to kill him....but then, what do you do? The big story was never his death. It was the story if what his death meant and his inevitable return. For me, despite Max bashing it, The Reign of the Supermen was DC Comics hitting on all cylinders!
People were going crazy guessing which guy was the real Superman. The kid? The guy with the look (Eradicator)? The guy with his heart (Steel)? In the end, they showed nobody could replace Clark Kent.
And it falsely says Superman "killed death in comics". Not so. It did set off a wave of stories where old characters got replaced and came back to defeat their replacement but comics characters were dying and coming back way before 1992.
