Reign of the Supermen #497: Superman of the Year-ish

Source: Time Magazine (March 14, 1988)
Type: Other media

Not actually Time's Man of the Year in 1988, the mag still gave Superman their cover on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary, in the process creating a strange alt-version of the character that kind of upends the magazine's intent. For one thing, the skin tones are way off, both on the cover and in the panels chosen to reproduce for the article. Superman's 50, and while his Kryptonian constitution has kept wrinkles at bay, his skin's kind of gone into putrefaction. And he's not alone:

One of his friends has gone positively GREEN.

And the cover copy... Sheesh! This Superman KNOWS he's 50 years old, his powers are "supernatural" in origin, and look! He's losing the drug war! Whatever happened to fact-checking?!

Still, I thought you might get a kick out of some original John Byrne and Jerry Ordway art.