I hadn't read this one before, but I usually enjoy a nice annual. This is an odd one, though: from 1984,
Superman Annual #10, "The Day the Cheering Stopped!" Written by Elliot S! Maggin, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Murphy Anderson. Cover by Eduardo Barreto.
This is a bit more grandiose than Superman fans have probably seen recently, beginning with random cheering aliens watching Superman save a distant planet, and ending with Supes rejecting possibly becoming big-g God. There's also a sword with the S-symbol on the hilt, created in the Big Bang, a Jimmy Olsen kidnapping, a space shuttle mission to launch a billionaire into orbit, and a ridiculously obscure Superman villain we've seen on the blog
before: King Kosmos! (How? I think this accounts for all his
appearances!)
Next year's annual, of course, would be
"For the Man that has Everything." It's, um, a little better known. And we've also seen the 1998
Superman Annual #10!
If you think this one's weird, you should read Annual #9! I won't spoil it but the last page of the main story is probably the strangest DC has gotten since the 50's. It may have taken a while for them to get into doing annuals with new stories, but DC in the late 70's and early 80's had some amazing special material.
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