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SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL ANNUAL #5
Cover Date: 1996
Cover Price: $2.95
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Cover Credits:
Art: Jerry Ordway
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"Chapter Two: Touched by the Stars"
"Chapter Three: A Hope Reborn"
"Chapter Four: Metropole"
"Chapter Five: The Eternal Throne"
"Chapter Six: The Discovery"
"Chapter Seven: The Dawn of Tomorrow"
Credits:
| Story | Kurt Busiek |
| Layout pencils | Paul Ryan |
| Finishes | Joe Rubinstein |
| Lettering | Bill Oakley |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Color separations | Digital Chameleon |
| Associate editing | Chris Duffy |
| Editing | Mike Carlin |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (Kaleb, a native of the planet Hydros)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lang (a resistance fighter and romantic interest of Kaleb)
- Ambrose (a resistance fighter)
- Corin (a resistance fighter; dies)
Villain(s):
- Emperor Lex Luthor LX (the original Lex Luthor, in his 60th incarnation; ruler of a thousand world empire)
- Steel-Troopers
- Lex Luthor's sentries (presumably clones of the same species of creature as Dreadnaught)
Other Character(s):
- Rebel forces (representatives of many alien species; including a Slyggian and Xudarian)
- Hastings
- Citizens of various unidentified Empire worlds
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Superman (in flashback image)
- Captain Marvel (in flashback image)
- Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner)
- Hawkman (in flashback image)
- Martian Manhunter (in flashback image)
- Wonder Woman (in flashback image)
- Lex Luthor LVI (picture only)
- Lex Luthor LVII (picture only)
- Lex Luthor LVIII (picture only)
- Lex Luthor LIX (picture only)
- Lex Luthor LXI (clone body; dies)
- Natives of the planet Hyrdos (all except Kaleb die)
- Natives of the planet Solitude
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth (in flashback)
- Unidentified Space Sector(s):
- Hydros (a mostly water world beneath a red sun; destroyed by Luthor's forces)
- Metropole (capital of the Empire; a city planet)
- Solitude (a world under a red sun)
- Damocles (mentioned only)
- Donegal (mentioned only)
- Hasdrubal (mentioned only)
- Oros (mentioned only)
- Praxyon (mentioned only)
- Various unidentified worlds in the Empire
Comment(s):
- The story is set in the distant future, when Earth is long dead.
- Lex Luthor possesses trophies pillaged from the dead Earth, including Dr. Fate's helmet and a Green Lantern power battery.