--the replacement has been fully briefed on the duties and responsibilities Superman faced daily as the champion of earth.
He has learned that the preservation of truth and justice must dictate his every act!
- — Two Unnamed Aliens
Superman #418 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1986. It was published on January 9, 1986.
Synopsis for "The Replacement!"
While Superman is fighting a menace on an alien world, representatives of that world create a replacement Superman to take care of Metropolis's ills, at which task he excels.
Appearing in "The Replacement!"
Featured Characters:
- Superman
- Superboy (Mentioned only)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Cloud-Eater (Flashback only) (Single appearance)
- Three Bank Robbers (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Ratchmo (Single appearance)
- Al (Single appearance)
- Two Muggers (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- An Assassin (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Liquor Store Robber (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Metallo (Final appearance)
Other Characters:
- Two Aliens (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Kryptonian Gods (Mentioned only)
- Metropolis Police Department (Unnamed)
- Benko (Single appearance)
- Superman-X (Single appearance)
- Citizens of Metropolis (Unnamed)
- Two Mugging Victims (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Middle Eastern Sheikh (Failed Assassination Target) (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Liquor Store Clerk (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Gun Store Customer (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- WGBS Employees (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Private Cargo Jet Guards (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Metro Hospital Staff (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Doctor Hill (Single appearance)
- Metro Hospital Patients (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Miss Hartley (Single appearance)
- Freddy Tyler (On a TV or computer screen) (Dies) (Fictional character)
Locations:
- New Earth
- Space
- Alien Planet (Unnamed) (Flashback only)
- Krypton (Mentioned only)
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Galaxy Communications Building
- WGBS Studios (On a TV or computer screen)
- Perry White's Office
- Lower East Side
- Liquor Store
- Gun Store
- Metro Hospital
- 23rd Precinct Police Station
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Eiffel Tower (As an illusion only)
- Big Ben (As an illusion only)
- Metropolis
Items:
- Bazooka Gun
- Daily Planet Newspaper
- Guns (Destroyed)
- Green Kryptonite (Destroyed) (Turned into Sandstone)
- X-Isotope
- Iron Lung
- Power-Rods
- Jimmy Olsen Trophy Collection (Mentioned only)
- Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch
- Nuclear Weapons (As an illusion only)
- Nuclear Bomb Detonation (As an illusion only)
- Surveillance Satellite
Vehicles:
- Alien Spacecraft
- Private Cargo Jet
- Flying Newsroom
Concepts:
Notes
- The unnamed aliens mentioned that they previously met Superman when he was Superboy and that he saved their "race and planet from a hostile invasion."
- By combining the X-Isotope and Kryptonite it would've made Metallo stronger by a factor of ten.
- From criminals and cops to displays and personal defense all guns were destroyed. All diseases were eradicated and all Kryptonite was turned into sandstone. Senior citizens were "power-charged" to defend themselves. Criminals turned themselves and their ill-gotten loot into the police thus, making Metropolis an uthopian city.
- This issue is set in the short period where the Superman of Earth-One (and all his supporting characters and villains) existed on the post-Crisis New Earth. This period ended when the effects of the Crisis "caught up" with Superman (et al) in The Man of Steel #1.