"POVERTY, DISEASE, AND IGNORANCE HAVE BEEN VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED FROM THE WARSAW PACT STATES."

"... Disobedience to the party has been virtually eliminated."

-- DC COMICS, c. summer 2003 (story/script by Mark Millar)

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1137x1748 -- Spotlight on a DC House ad for Superman: Red Son Vol. 1 #2 (July 2003), the second issue in a three-issue prestige format comic book mini-series published by DC Comics, released under their Elseworlds imprint in 2003. Artwork by Dave Johnson.

PICS #2&3: The published cover art to "Superman: Red Son" Vol. 1 #2 (July 2003), artwork by Mark Millar, utilizing the same artwork as the house ad, plus the textless, unused, preliminary cover art, also by Dave Johnson.

WHEN METAHUMANS GO ROGUE -- THE FACES, HEROES, FUGURES, & SCOUNDRELS OF THE DC MULTIVERSE.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on the first three textless wraparound covers for the now legendary 1996 DC Comics mini-series, "Kingdom Come," assembling all the characters from said mini series in a splendourous roll call line-up. Artwork by Alex Ross.

Resolution from largest to smallest: 2047x1066 (2x) & 1983x1060.

"ANGELS. NO, NOT ANGELS. GODS THEMSELVES. SUPERMAN HAD RETURNED..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on textless cover art to the "Kingdom Come" trade hardcover published by DC's Black Label imprint, c. 2019. Artwork by Alex Ross, and originally used for KC's first retail and/or comic book shop poster.

Resolution at 1488x2240 & 1318x2048.

"Angels. No, not angels. Gods themselves. Superman had returned... in doing so, drawing from seclusion, the titans of yesteryear... their emerald flashes and scarlet strobes lighting the darkness of the day. Over the thunder of panic, I hear names unfamiliar. Hawkman. Robin. The Ray. They sweep their foes aside like tenpins -- while Wonder Woman protects the innocents. With a final red glare, the fight is over. Below, the bystanders buzz with gratitude."

-- NORMAN MCCAY (Story/script by Mark Waid & Alex Ross)

"I CLAIM THIS PLANET IN THE NAME OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!" -- IN A NUTSHELL.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1500x2352 -- Spotlight on a 1994 DC Comics "Action Comics" Annual print ad and/or poster design, featuring "Superman" artwork by Mike Mignola.

PIC #2: Cover art to "Action Comics" Annual Vol 1 #6. September, 1994. Artwork by Mike Mignola.

OVERVIEW: ""Legacy" is an Elseworlds story featuring an adaptation of Superman, written and illustrated by creator John Byrne. In this story the kryptonian Kal-El is not sent in a rocket to Earth by his parents when their planet explodes, but one of his ancestors from the House of El arrives as a fully grown man two hundred years earlier during the American War of Independence and takes the side of the British Empire. Given supreme power, he eventually dominates the entire planet to his will and constructs a totalitarian regime depriving his subjects of both freedom and liberty. Many years later his descendant Kal, almost entirely human through generations of inter-species breeding, fights back against him in a rebellion. There is dichotomy as the two characters battling embody respectively Superman's power and his ideals in conflict."

-- DC COMICS WIKIA (Fandom)

"...TRULY THE STREETS ARE PAVED IN GOLD, THOUGH THEY'LL RUN RED 'FORE I'M THRU."

PICS INFO: Spotlight on a panel of the Ripper working the whores of Gotham City, plus the page from whence the panel originated -- ENJOY OR @#!*%¢$& DIE -- from "Gotham by Gaslight," the DC Comics one-shot comic-book revolving around a 19th-century version of Bruce Wayne making his debut as Batman just as Jack the Ripper has arrived in Gotham City.

"Dear Boss,

Hello to America, hello to Gotham City, truly the streets are paved in gold, though they'll run red 'fore I'm thru. My knife is as sharp as ever and no whore is safe even if she don't take money -- HA HA, yours truly,

-- JACK THE RIPPER, to Inspector Gordon, 12 Middle St, Gotham City

STORY/SCRIPT: Brian Augustyn

ARTWORK: Mike Mignola

INKS: P. Craig Russell

COLORIST: David Hornung