Superman: Peace on Earth

Superman: Peace on Earth is a treasury giant prestige format 64-page graphic novel published by DC Comics in November 1998. The Man of Steel in an oversized one-shot featuring a cardstock cover with a metallic fifth-color ink. As the holiday season approaches, 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. But as Superman sets out to accomplish the impossible, he encounters unexpected resistance to his humanitarian efforts.

Superman: Peace on Earth
Publication information
PublisherDC Comics
Publication dateNovember, 1998
Main character(s)Superman
Creative team
Written byPaul Dini and Alex Ross
Artist(s)Alex Ross
Collected editions
Superman: Peace on EarthISBN 978-1-56389-464-0
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Dust-Jacket Splicase HardcoverISBN 978-1-4012-0254-5
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Softcover ReprintISBN 978-1-4012-0255-2

Plot

After helping to start the Christmas season in Metropolis, Superman finds a starving young woman that leads to him look up the topic of world hunger. Wanting to help, Superman proposes to the United Nations to help to 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 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. So he decides to be an example to others, sharing his knowledge to anyone in need and hope to inspire the world.

Awards
  • Reuben Awards
    • 1998 Comic Book Award for Superman: Peace on Earth
  • Eisner Awards
    • 1999 Best Graphic Album: New, Superman: Peace on Earth, by Paul Dini and Alex Ross (DC)
    • 1999 Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art), Alex Ross, Superman: Peace on Earth (DC) [1]
  • 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]

Foreign versions

Due its universal story and social relevant content, this standalone title was published, and even republished more than one time, in several countries on different versions and languages, being one of the few Superman comics to be printed in Asia, Europe and America.

Foreign TitleLanguageCountriesPublisherRelease DateISBN-10ISBN-13EAN-13 / ASINPagesDimensionsList Price
Super-Homem: Paz na Terra[4]PortugueseBrazilEditora AbrilMay 199985-7305-752-16410" x 13" ½R$12,90
Superman: Pace in Terra[5]ItalianItalyPlay Press[6]June 1999B00XC9T8PE6410" x 13" ½L 20,000
Superman: Paix sur Terre[7]FrenchBelgiumLe Téméraire[8]September 19992843990602978-2843990601769" ¼ x 12" ½129 FF, 794 BF
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Softcover)[9]GermanGermanyCarlsen ComicsDecember 19993551744017978-3551744012648 ½" x 11" ½DEM 19,90
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Hardcover)[10]GermanGermanyCarlsen ComicsDecember 19993551744025978-3551744029688 ¾" x 11" ¾DEM 49,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[11]SpanishMexico
USA
Argentina
Chile
Spain
Colombia		Grupo Editorial VidApril 20007509982402688 MX648" x 10" ½MÉX $60.00
US$7.00
$7.00 PESOS
$3,400.00 PESOS
$1,100.00 PESETAS
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[12]CastellanSpainNorma EditorialJune 200084-8431-173-297884843117376429 x 22 cm$1,250.00 PESETAS
スーパーマン/ピース・オン・アース (DC Super Comic N.011)[13]JapaneseJapanShogakukanJune 20004-7968-4105-9978-4796841054688 ¾" x 11" ¾¥ 1,333
Superman Hors-Série #1: Paix sur Terre[14]FrenchFrance
Belgium
Switzerland
Canada		Semic ComicsSeptember 2000379873802900 FR6410 ½" x 7"29,90 F
8,20 FS
210 FB
CAN $7,50
Superman: Paix sur Terre[15]FrenchFranceSoleil ProductionsApril 20012845651112978-2845651111769" ½ x 12" ¾99 FF
폴 디니 글/알렉스 로스 그림/이규원 역[16]KoreanSouth KoreaSigongsaDecember 20098952757300978895275730264254*345*15 mm$10,000
Superman: Pace in Terra
DC Comics Story N.15 – Master 24 N.32[17]		ItalianItalyRW Edizioni[18] – RW LionJanuary 201597711219449-40015B015EJNLS4192€7,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[19]SpanishChileUnlimited Comics[20]August 2015978-956-355-192-172CL $2490
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[21]SpanishSpainECC Comics[22]June 2016978-84-16746-75-072€12,50

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