Superman (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1986.
Synopsis for "The Man Who Murdered Evil!"
Superman's computer correlates the appearance of super-villains on Earth to the presence of a being named Greeneyes. But when Superman goes after Greeneyes, the villain merges into the body of a human being and transforms him into Iago, an avatar of mystic evil.
Appearing in "The Man Who Murdered Evil!"
Featured Characters:
- Template:Apn (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Lois Lane
- Perry White
- Morgan Edge (Cameo) (Final appearance)
Villains:
- Greeneyes (Flashback only)
- Iago (also as Arnie Alpert and Female Prisoner #636211) (First appearance) (Flashback and main story)
- Satan (Flashback and main story)
- Dr. Alice Herman #112548 (Final appearance)
- Demons (Flashback and main story)
- Lex Luthor (On a TV or computer screen) and (Mentioned only)
- Brainiac (On a TV or computer screen)
- Joker (On a TV or computer screen)
- Darkseid (On a TV or computer screen)
- Muammar Gaddafi (On a TV or computer screen)
- Three Bank Robbers (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Arnie Alpert (First appearance) (Possessed)
- Pocantico Federal Correctional Facility
- Prisoners (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Ethel (Single appearance)
- Staff (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Warden Clarence Rutherford
- Prisoners (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Metropolis Eagle Staff (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Mr. Kenyan
Locations:
- New York
- Metropolis (Flashback and main story)
- Meals for Metropolis Soup Kitchen
- Metro Bank and Trust
- Public Library
- Metropolis Eagle
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Pocantico Federal Correctional Facility (90 miles north of Metropolis)
- Rock Devereaux (Mentioned only)
- North Pole
- Fortress of Solitude (Flashback and main story)
- Hell (Flashback and main story)
Items:
- Super Computer
- Essays on Superman book
- Last Son of Krypton book
- Metropolis Eagle Newspaper
- Highly Activated Yeast Culture
- Plutonium
Vehicles:
Notes
- This is the final appearance of the Earth-One Morgan Edge. The revised Post-Crisis Edge makes his first appearance in Superman #13.
- Essays on Superman by Lois Lane and Last Son of Krypton by Elliot S. Maggin are seen at the Public Library.
- The warden at Pocantico has the same name as Wally Cleaver's friend Clarence "Lumpy" Rutherford on the television show Leave it to Beaver.
See Also