Superman: Peace on Earth

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Superman: Peace on Earth
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Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
Format Graphic novel
Publication dateNovember 1998
Main character(s) Superman
Creative team
Written by Paul Dini and Alex Ross
Artist(s) Alex Ross
Collected editions
Trade Paperback ISBN   1563894645
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Hardcover ISBN   1401202543
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Paperback ISBN   1401202551
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Absolute ISBN   140127370X

Superman: Peace on Earth is a treasury giant prestige format 64-page graphic novel published by DC Comics in November 1998. The cover depicts Superman in an oversized one-shot featuring a cardstock cover with a metallic fifth-color ink. As the holiday season approaches, his alter ego, Clark Kent reflects on the poverty suffered by so many throughout the world and decides to use his vast power to feed the starving and impoverished masses. As Superman sets out to accomplish the impossible, he encounters unexpected resistance to his humanitarian efforts.

Contents

Plot

After helping to start the Christmas season in Metropolis, Superman finds a starving young woman that leads him to look up the topic of world hunger. Wanting to help, Superman proposes to the United Nations to help to end world hunger through the gesture of spending a day delivering as much food as he can to settlements that need it anywhere on the planet, an idea met with significant controversy but ultimately given the go-ahead. With tankers filled with food, Superman flies to starving and impoverished locations all over the Earth, and is met with varying levels of gratitude, praise, fear and frenzy. Eventually, Superman arrives in a country whose militarized government warns against his help. In response to his persistence, they fire a chemical-weapon missile at where he is, with civilians below. He attempts to save the people by sending the cloud of poison into space, but the tanker is damaged and the food is poisoned. He stops his mission in the middle, incomplete. The international press reports it. He returns to Metropolis as Clark Kent. He remembers his adoptive father's teachings on farming and the old proverb Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he eats for a lifetime. He decides to be an example to others, sharing his knowledge to anyone in need and hopes to inspire the world.

Awards

Foreign versions

Due its universal story, social relevant content, fluid narrative and all-age subject, this standalone title was published, and even republished more than one time, in several countries on different versions and languages, being one of the few Superman comics to be printed in Asia, Europe and America.

Foreign TitleLanguageCountriesPublisherRelease DateISBN-10ISBN-13EAN-13 / ASINPagesDimensionsList Price
Super-Homem: Paz na Terra [4] PortugueseBrazil Editora Abril May 1999 85-7305-752-1 6410" x 13" ½R$12,90
Superman: Pace in Terra [5] ItalianItalyPlay Press [6] June 1999B00XC9T8PE6410" x 13" ½L 20,000
Superman: Paix sur Terre [7] FrenchBelgiumLe Téméraire [8] September 1999 2843990602 978-2843990601 769" ¼ x 12" ½129 FF, 794 BF
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Softcover) [9] GermanGermany Carlsen Comics December 1999 3551744017 978-3551744012 648 ½" x 11" ½DEM 19,90
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Hardcover) [10] GermanGermany Carlsen Comics December 1999 3551744025 978-3551744029 688 ¾" x 11" ¾DEM 49,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra [11] SpanishMexico
USA
Argentina
Chile
Spain
Colombia
Grupo Editorial Vid April 20007509982402688 MX648" x 10" ½MÉX $60.00
US$7.00
$7.00 PESOS
$3,400.00 PESOS
$1,100.00 PESETAS
Superman: Paz en la Tierra [12] CastellanSpain Norma Editorial June 2000 84-8431-173-2 9788484311737 6429 x 22 cm$1,250.00 PESETAS
スーパーマン/ピース・オン・アース (DC Super Comic N.011) [13] JapaneseJapan Shogakukan June 2000 4-7968-4105-9 978-4796841054 688 ¾" x 11" ¾¥ 1,333
Superman Hors-Série #1: Paix sur Terre [14] FrenchFrance
Belgium
Switzerland
Canada
Semic Comics September 2000379873802900 FR6410 ½" x 7"29,90 F
8,20 FS
210 FB
CAN $7,50
Superman: Paix sur Terre [15] FrenchFrance Soleil Productions April 2001 2845651112 978-2845651111 769" ½ x 12" ¾99 FF
슈퍼맨: 땅 위에 평화를 [16] KoreanSouth Korea Sigongsa December 2009 8952757300 9788952757302 64254*345*15 mm$10,000
Superman: Pace in Terra
DC Comics Story N.15 – Master 24 N.32 [17]
ItalianItalyRW Edizioni [18] – RW LionJanuary 201597711219449-40015B015EJNLS4192€7,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra [19] SpanishChileUnlimited Comics [20] August 2015 978-956-355-192-1 72CL $2490
Superman: Paz en la Tierra [21] SpanishSpainECC Comics [22] June 2016 978-84-16746-75-0 72€12,50
Superman: Vrede op Aarde [23] DutchNetherlandsDark Dragon Books [24] 2022 9789464600032 64€ 10,95
Superman: Friede auf Erden [25] GermanGermanyPanini Deutschland [26] September 2021 9783741623226 3741623229 7626 x 36 cm€ 27,00
Superman: Paz na Terra [27] PortugueseBrazilPanini Comics Brasil [28] August 20257225 x 35 cmR$99,90

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