num_pages: 64
description: Superman saves multitudes as part of his daily regimen of saving the world when he's stricken with a feeling of dread.Later at the Planet Clark is so nervous and anxious that he knocks coffee onto Lois. Lois sensing that something is awry takes Clark on a walk. Clark describes his fear that of being the sole survivor of Krypton... perhaps he was SUPPOSED to die. Lois suggests a villain. Clark disagrees.A robotic mass appears and threatens them. One problem however: It's a hallucination and Lois doesn't see it. They decide Clark needs help.Martian Manhunter probes Superman. Manhunter is thrown back harmed by the severity of the visions of God that he's experienced. He tells Superman that he'll have to handle things on his own.Back home Lois and Clark further contemplate when Clark sees a distant rocket. He goes and stops it from hitting Metropolis only to find himself in the rocket an infant dead.He goes into a funk considering his mortality and hallucinates more. He rips the Planet globe thinking it Krypton and Lois arrives to take him home. At home they talk more finally kissing and Death bursts in telling Clark that it is his time to die.He shows Clark the future. Lois dies but Superman is not aging. Luthor attacks all out telling Superman that he spared him for all these years because he cared for Lois. Superman defeats Luthor who transfers away and into another cybernetic consciousness.Superman flashes back to Lois who tells him that it must have been a good kiss.Upset they go to see the Kents. Superman ends up outside with Jonathan talking when Jonathan crumbles to dust in front of him and Death appears again. Superman asks him what he wants and Death disappears.Superman throws himself into being Superman taking on alien armadas delivering a baby. At a dinner with Lois Death again appears.Superman is thrown into the future as Death tries to convince him to die. Death is having trouble killing Superman.Superman sees an Earth where the sun has gone nova and everyone is dead. He goes further where Superman is the sole survivor as the universe ends and finally with the end of existence Superman ends as well taking Death with him.The vision ends with Superman brought back by Lois' love. Death thanks Superman for filling an emptiness in his soul the emptiness that all is inevitably death with the hope that Superman represents. Death decides to leave Superman be and Superman goes back to Lois happy.
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title: Superman: Where Is Thy Sting?
publisher: DC Comics