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All-Star Superman

2005–2008 DC Comics miniseries featuring Superman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

All-Star Superman is a twelve-issue American comic book series featuring Superman that was published by DC Comics. The series ran from November 2005 to October 2008, written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Frank Quitely, and digitally inked by Jamie Grant. The series revolves around Superman as he accomplishes many heroic feats and attempts to make peace with the world before his imminent death due to overexposure to Earth's Sun.

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The public source identifies “All-Star Superman” as 2005–2008 DC Comics miniseries featuring Superman. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around All-Star, Superman and Comics.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with All-Star, Superman and Comics providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “All-Star Superman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.