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 date | November 1998 |
| Main character | Superman |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Paul Dini and Alex Ross |
| Artist | 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.
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 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
- Reuben Awards
- 1998 Comic Book Award for Superman: Peace on Earth
- Eisner Awards
- Harvey Awards
- 1999 Best Cover Artist, Alex Ross, for Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Image/Homage), Superman Forever (DC), Superman: Peace on Earth (DC) [2]
- Troféu HQ Mix
- 2000 12th HQ Mix Award Best Special Edition, São Paulo, Brazil
- Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum
- 1998 Don Thompson Memorial Awards, Favorite Painter or Mixed-Media Artist, Alex Ross (Superman: Peace on Earth, et al.)[3]