The character also received a solo one-shot, Justice Society of America: Kingdom Come Special: Superman.

Ten years prior to the start of the events of Kingdom Come, the Joker floods the offices of the Daily Planet with his trademark toxin, killing all the staff except for Lois Lane, who finds a gas mask.

Already disheartened at the death of Lois, Kal-El abandons his life as Superman and spends the next decade in the Fortress of Solitude.

[1] Coaxed back into action by Wonder Woman, Superman decides to return to Metropolis and re-form the Justice League.

[2] As conditions worsen, the United Nations Secretary General Wyrmwood authorizes the deployment of three tactical nuclear warheads, hardened against certain metahuman powers.

In the aftermath of the battle, Superman helps fix the damage done to Kansas and resumes his identity as Clark Kent.

[4] Twenty years after the events of Kingdom Come, a survivor of the Kansas disaster is granted power by the Quintessence, who dub him Gog.

[5] As Gog travels closer to the modern DC universe, the Linear Men panic when they see that their ordered index of time is unraveling; Superman is dead in the 21st century, yet alive in the 853rd, and their instruments register no error.

[6] Rip Hunter recruits Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman from the Kingdom Come era to stop Gog in 1998.

One iteration of the Kingdom Come Superman from Earth-22 (who did not participate in the events of The Kingdom) enters New Earth through a dimensional portal created inadvertently by Starman when he opened a black hole to stop a raging mystical fire the Justice Society couldn't contain that was coming from the hole in the chest of the villain Goth.

Goth's powers harmlessly erupt in the black hole, causing a rip in the dimension which brought this Superman to New Earth.

[8] Later when dealing with Japanese metahuman assassins trying to kill the new Judomaster, he shows he had little or no problem threatening the life of his opponents, an option the present Superman would never consider as he follows a strict code of ethics that abhors the use of deadly force.

[10] After Mr. America brings word of his run in with Gog to the JSA, the Earth-22 Superman visits Metropolis, where he uses his listening powers to hear the various conversations around the city.

[15] Sandman, Superman, and the JSA learn that Gog is on the verge of permanently rooting himself into the Earth's core, which would result in the planet's destruction if he ever leaves.

Superman then asks Starman, who has a map of the Multiverse on his costume, to send him back to Earth-22, to just before the bomb that destroyed Kansas went off.

In the epilogue, Superman is shown to have survived 1000 years after his return, and as an old man, he watches the fly-by of the (Legion of Super-Heroes), future generation of superheroes.

[18][19] This version resides on Earth-96 and dealt with a significant tragedy when a dissatisfied Gotham City inhabitant (implied to be the Joker) gassed the Daily Planet, which took the lives of Lois Lane and his fellow co-workers.

Amidst the Crisis, Earth-38's Superman and Lois Lane as well as Earth-1's Iris West-Allen show up to recruit him to help fight the Anti-Monitor as he is one of seven heroes capable of stopping the anti-matter being from destroying the multiverse, or Paragons.