Description

Superman III                             One-Shot Comic
The Official DC Comics Movie Adaptation of the 1983 Superman Movie!
Based on the DC Comics character Superman created by: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Writer: Cary Bates
Artists: Curt Swan & Sal Amendola
Colorist: Carl Gafford
Letterer: Ben Oda
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Cover by: Movie Photo

Superman III is a British-American 1983 superhero film directed by Richard Lester, starring: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Marc McClure, & Jackie Cooper (all reprising their respective roles). As well as Richard Pryor, Annette O’Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn, and Gavan O’Herlihy. It is the third film in the Christopher Reeve – Superman film series. Behold, Evil Superman when synthetic kryptonite transforms Superman into the very bad & naughty Man of Steel.

Now DC Comics presents Superman III! Wealthy businessman Ross Webster discovers the hidden talents of Gus Gorman, a mischievous computer genius. Ross decides to abuse his talents, in a way to help Webster with his plans for economic control. When the man of steel interferes, something must be done about Superman. When Gus’ synthetic Kryptonite fails to kill Superman, it turns him in an evil incarnation of his former self. The tar-laced Kryptonite pits man against himself, setting up the Clark vs. Superman battle.

Story/Spoilers
The Metropolis-based conglomerate Webscoe hires Gus Gorman, a talented computer programmer. Gus embezzles from his employer through salami slicing, which brings him to the attention of CEO Ross Webster. Webster is intrigued by Gus’ potential to help him financially. Webster, his sister Vera, and Webster’s girlfriend Lorelei blackmail Gus into helping him.

At the Daily Planet, Clark Kent convinces Perry White to let him and Jimmy Olsen visit Smallville for Clark’s high-school reunion, while fellow reporter and Clark’s unrequited romantic interest Lois Lane leaves for a Bermuda vacation. En route, as Superman, Kent extinguishes a fire in a chemical plant containing unstable beltric acid, which produces corrosive vapor when superheated.

At the reunion, Clark reunites with childhood friend Lana Lang, a divorcée with a young son named Ricky. Clark is harassed by Brad Wilson, his former bully and Lana’s ex-boyfriend. Later, while having a picnic with Lana, Superman saves an unconscious Ricky from being killed by a combine harvester.

Infuriated by Colombia’s refusal to do business with him, Webster orders Gus to command Vulcan, an American weather satellite, to create a tornado to destroy Colombia’s coffee crop, allowing Webster to corner the market. Gus travels to Smallville to use a Webscoe subsidiary to reprogram the satellite. Although Vulcan creates a devastating storm, Superman neutralizes it. Seeing Superman as a threat to his plans, Webster orders Gus to fabricate Kryptonite. Gus uses Vulcan to locate and analyze Krypton’s debris. As one of the elements of Kryptonite is unknown, he substitutes tar.

Lana convinces Superman to appear at Ricky’s birthday party, but Smallville turns it into a town celebration. Gus and Vera, disguised as Army officers, give Superman the flawed Kryptonite as an award. Although it has no immediate effect, Superman becomes selfish, and then commits petty acts of vandalism such as straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa and blowing out the Olympic Flame.

Gus asks Webster to build the world’s most sophisticated supercomputer; the CEO agrees, if Gus creates an energy crisis by directing all oil tankers to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. When the captain of one tanker insists on maintaining his original course, Lorelei seduces Superman, persuading him to waylay the tanker and breach its double hull, causing an oil spill. The villains decamp to the supercomputer’s location in Glen Canyon.

Superman suffers a nervous breakdown and splits into two beings: the immoral, corrupted dark Superman and the moral, mild-mannered Clark Kent. The two fight in a junkyard, with Clark eventually defeating his evil self. Regaining his sanity, Superman repairs the damage he caused in the oil spill and heads west to deal with the villains. After defending himself from exploding rockets and an ASALM missile, Superman confronts Webster, Vera, and Lorelei. The supercomputer identifies Superman’s weakness and unleashes a beam of pure Kryptonite.

Guilt-ridden and horrified by the notion of “going down in history as the man who killed Superman”, Gus destroys the Kryptonite ray with a firefighter’s axe. Superman escapes, but the computer becomes self-aware, defending itself against Gus’s attempts to disable it. The computer transforms Vera into a cyborg that attacks her brother and Lorelei with beams of energy that immobilize them. Superman returns with beltric acid, which the supercomputer believes is not dangerous. The intense heat emitted by the supercomputer causes the acid to become volatile, destroying it. Superman leaves Webster and his cronies for the authorities, but thanks Gus for saving his life. The pair fly off to a coal mine where Superman transforms coal into a diamond for Lana. Gus declines to return to Metropolis, deciding to make a fresh start in West Virginia.

As Clark, Superman visits Lana after she moves to Metropolis. A drunken Brad attacks Clark believing he was proposing to her, but the reporter defeats him without revealing his secret identity. Lana’s new job as Perry White’s secretary surprises Lois Lane, who returns from her vacation with an article about corruption in Bermuda, and has a newfound respect for Clark after reading his story. Before lunch with Lana, Superman restores the Leaning Tower of Pisa and flies into the sunrise for further adventures.

Comic is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: DC Comics
Publication Date: 1983
Format: FC, 48 pages, comic, 10.25″ x 6.65″
UPC: 085391132028

Collectible Entertainment note: One-Shot Comic is in Fine condition.  Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Superman collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Recommended.

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