Super-Sons Artist Recreates Classic Superman Cover

Be on the lookout for an upcoming issue of Superman with a...very familiar...variant [...]

By Russ Burlingame

Be on the lookout for an upcoming issue of Superman with a...very familiar...variant cover.

Super-Sons artist Jorge Jiménez took to Twitter to share the image above, an homage to 1942's Superman #14.

The issue is among a handful of iconic Superman and Action Comics covers that have been homaged over and over again throughout the years, including Action Comics #1 (with Superman busting up a car), Superman #1 (with a yellow background and Superman in a flight position over Metropolis) and Superman (vol. 2) #75, "The Death of Superman" with its tattered cape.

In fact, there are two fairly recent and notable homages to Superman #14 in the DC canon: after Superman's death in 1992, his grave site featured a statue of the Man of Steel standing with his legs slightly apart and an eagle perched on his arm, a la the image here.

Another riff on the concept would appear on the cover of Superman (vol. 2) #150, the final issue by longtime Superman writer/artist Dan Jurgens back in 2000.

Jurgens wouldn't return to Superman in an ongoing capacity until after 2011's New 52 reboot -- and even then he would only stay for a single arc before moving on. It was only after the Rebirth relaunch that the iconic Super-creator would stick around for a while. He has been on Action Comics for the last year, with no signs of stopping soon.

Jiménez's take is certainly the closest to the original, complete with the black background and the flag-shield behind Superman.

Jiménez is also the first to bring the post-Rebirth, post-Superman Reborn costume to an iconic homage cover, as long as you don't count Andy Kubert's Action Comics #977 cover, in which the image was original but featured small homages to several of Superman's most iconic moments.

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