Books in Superman/Batman series

After being released from prison, the evil PRANKSTER vows to turn over a new leaf. Instead of using his trickster talents for trouble, he's taking them to TV. As the host of a new show, the PRANKSTER recruits teenagers to perform practical jokes for a television audience. At first, the show is a hilarious hit. Soon, however, each prank becomes a preview for a crime, and SUPERMAN isn't amused. He's sending teenage reporter JIMMY OLSEN to investigate, and stop this reality show from becoming real-life mystery.

Intergalactic bounty hunter LOBO has a new job. The evil aliens KALIBAK and DESAAD have hired him to capture SUPERMAN, dead or alive! However, when LOBO finally manages to wrangle up the MAN OF STEEL, the aliens aren't far behind. They don't trust the ill-mannered bounty hunter, and quickly trap him beneath a force field with SUPERMAN. LOBO and the MAN OF STEEL must set aside their differences in order to escape, capture the two villains, and collect the well-deserved reward.

When astronauts crash on Pluto, only one man can save them . . . SUPERMAN! Faster than a speeding bullet, the MAN OF STEEL soars toward the dwarf planet, towing a high-tech rescue vehicle. Soon, he discovers an unexpected passenger aboard the spacecraft. JIMMY OLSEN, the DAILY PLANET'S young photographer, has hitched a ride, but that's not SUPERMAN'S biggest problem. When the evil KANJAR RO attacks, the MAN OF STEEL finds himself weakened by deep-space travel. Can he summon the strength to defeat the alien invader 3,660,000,000 miles from Earth's yellow sun?

Taking a rare day off from the DAILY PLANET newspaper, CLARK KENT relaxes with his new sci-fi novel, Little Green Men. Then suddenly, the mild-mannered reporter hears a scream! Unable to ignore his other job as SUPERMAN, the world's greatest hero, he soars toward the cry for help, rescuing a construction worker from a near fatal fall. The interruptions, however, don't stop there, and the MAN OF STEEL'S lazy day quickly becomes stranger than fiction.

DAILY PLANET reporters CLARK KENT and LOIS LANE are covering the opening of the new METROPOLIS MUSEUM when, suddenly, a gigantic skeleton of a blue whale comes to life. With lightning-speed, SUPERMAN catches the colossal creature, but the magical mischief is far from over. The impish MR. MXYZPTLK has returned from the Fifth Dimension with dozens of troublesome tricks. Even the MAN OF STEEL is helpless against the power of magic!

Many graphic novels have attempted to ground in reality the notion of superheroes living in the real world, but very few have done so with such finesse and skill. Named after the famous comics character by his parents, Laura and David Kent, Clark has grown up detached and alienated by his stupid moniker. Then one night, life imitates art and Clark, like the bane of his life, can fly. Suddenly he has superpowers. Suddenly he is Superman! And suddenly the small boy from a small town is thrown into a big, big world that may be far more demanding than even he can handle. Heaped with praise, this new and brilliant alternate reality for the Man of Steel takes all that has gone before, throws it in the blender and creates something beautiful.