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SUPERMAN VERSUS DARKSEID: APOKOLIPS NOW! #1
Cover Date: March 2003
Cover Price: $2.95
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Cover Credits:
Art: Kilian Plunkett (signed)
Colors: Tanya Horie, Richard Horie
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Credits:
| Story | Mark Schultz |
| Pencils | Mike McKone |
| Inks | Marlo Alquiza, Cam Smith |
| Lettering | Comicraft |
| Colors | Tanya Horie, Richard Horie |
| Editing | Eddie Berganza |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (also in flashback)
Guest Star(s):
- Superboy
- Supergirl II
- Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
- Eradicator II
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Darkseid
- Justeen (last in Wonder Woman Vol. 2 #188; next in Death of the New Gods #2)
- Parademons
- Mortalla
- Doomsday Rex
Guest Appearance(s):
- Big Barda
Synopsis: - Determined to save his friend John Henry from Darkseid's clutches, Superman leads a group of those with Kryptonian DNA (so as not to involve Earth) in an invasion of Apokolips. Here, he fights Darkseid in single combat while his allies battle Darkseid's troops. Natasha Irons is also able to make her way to the hell planet, where she is saved from Doomsday by John Henry, using the great reserves of energy in the aegis armor. When Superman defeats Darkseid, he asks simply for the return of his friend, and vows never to tell others the result of the combat. John Henry is returned to them, on the brink of death and saved only by a transfusion of blood from his niece. They all return to Earth, while on Apokolips, a resistance movement takes an 'S' as its symbol, somehow having gained word of Darkseid's defeat.