Superman: Peace on Earth

Superman: Peace on Earth is a treasury giant prestige format 64-page graphic novel published by DC Comics in November 1998. The Man of Steel in an oversized one-shot featuring a cardstock cover with a metallic fifth-color ink. As the holiday season approaches, Clark Kent reflects on the poverty suffered by so many throughout the world and decides to use his vast power to feed the starving and impoverished masses. But as Superman sets out to accomplish the impossible, he encounters unexpected resistance to his humanitarian efforts.

Superman: Peace on Earth
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	November, 1998
Main character(s)	Superman
Creative team
Written by	Paul Dini and Alex Ross
Artist(s)	Alex Ross
Collected editions
Superman: Peace on Earth	ISBN 978-1-56389-464-0
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Dust-Jacket Splicase Hardcover	ISBN 978-1-4012-0254-5
The World's Greatest Super-Heroes Softcover Reprint	ISBN 978-1-4012-0255-2

Plot

After helping to start the Christmas season in Metropolis, Superman finds a starving young woman that leads to him look up the topic of world hunger. Wanting to help, Superman proposes to the United Nations to help to end world hunger through the gesture of spending a day delivering as much food as he can to settlements that need it anywhere on the planet, an idea met with significant controversy but ultimately given the go-ahead. With tankers filled with food, Superman flies to starving and impoverished locations all over the Earth, and is met with varying levels of gratitude, praise, fear and frenzy. Eventually, Superman arrives in a country whose militarized government warns against his help. In response to his persistence, they fire a chemical-weapon missile at where he is, with civilians below. He attempts to save the people by sending the cloud of poison into space, but the tanker is damaged and the food is poisoned. He stops his mission in the middle, incomplete. The international press reports it. He returns to Metropolis as Clark Kent. He remembers his adoptive father teachings on farming and the old proverb Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he eats for a lifetime. So he decides to be an example to others, sharing his knowledge to anyone in need and hope to inspire the world.

Awards

• Reuben Awards
  • 1998 Comic Book Award for Superman: Peace on Earth
• Eisner Awards
  • 1999 Best Graphic Album: New, Superman: Peace on Earth, by Paul Dini and Alex Ross (DC)
  • 1999 Best Painter/Multimedia Artist (Interior Art), Alex Ross, Superman: Peace on Earth (DC) [1]
• Harvey Awards
  • 1999 Best Cover Artist, Alex Ross, for Kurt Busiek's Astro City (Image/Homage), Superman Forever (DC), Superman: Peace on Earth (DC) [2]
• Troféu HQ Mix
  • 2000 12th HQ Mix Award Best Special Edition, São Paulo, Brazil
• Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum
  • 1998 Don Thompson Memorial Awards, Favorite Painter or Mixed-Media Artist, Alex Ross (Superman: Peace on Earth, et al.) [3]

Foreign versions

Due its universal story and social relevant content, this standalone title was published, and even republished more than one time, in several countries on different versions and languages, being one of the few Superman comics to be printed in Asia, Europe and America.

Foreign Title	Language	Countries	Publisher	Release Date	ISBN-10	ISBN-13	EAN-13 / ASIN	Pages	Dimensions	List Price
Super-Homem: Paz na Terra[4]	Portuguese	Brazil	Editora Abril	May 1999	85-7305-752-1			64	10" x 13" ½	R$12,90
Superman: Pace in Terra[5]	Italian	Italy	Play Press[6]	June 1999			B00XC9T8PE	64	10" x 13" ½	L 20,000
Superman: Paix sur Terre[7]	French	Belgium	Le Téméraire[8]	September 1999	2843990602	978-2843990601		76	9" ¼ x 12" ½	129 FF, 794 BF
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Softcover)[9]	German	Germany	Carlsen Comics	December 1999	3551744017	978-3551744012		64	8 ½" x 11" ½	DEM 19,90
Superman: Friede auf Erden (Hardcover)[10]	German	Germany	Carlsen Comics	December 1999	3551744025	978-3551744029		68	8 ¾" x 11" ¾	DEM 49,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[11]	Spanish	Mexico USA Argentina Chile Spain Colombia	Grupo Editorial Vid	April 2000			7509982402688 MX	64	8" x 10" ½	MÉX $60.00 US$7.00 $7.00 PESOS $3,400.00 PESOS $1,100.00 PESETAS
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[12]	Castellan	Spain	Norma Editorial	June 2000	84-8431-173-2	9788484311737		64	29 x 22 cm	$1,250.00 PESETAS
スーパーマン/ピース・オン・アース (DC Super Comic N.011)[13]	Japanese	Japan	Shogakukan	June 2000	4-7968-4105-9	978-4796841054		68	8 ¾" x 11" ¾	¥ 1,333
Superman Hors-Série #1: Paix sur Terre[14]	French	France Belgium Switzerland Canada	Semic Comics	September 2000			379873802900 FR	64	10 ½" x 7"	29,90 F 8,20 FS 210 FB CAN $7,50
Superman: Paix sur Terre[15]	French	France	Soleil Productions	April 2001	2845651112	978-2845651111		76	9" ½ x 12" ¾	99 FF
폴 디니 글/알렉스 로스 그림/이규원 역[16]	Korean	South Korea	Sigongsa	December 2009	8952757300	9788952757302		64	254*345*15 mm	$10,000
Superman: Pace in Terra DC Comics Story N.15 – Master 24 N.32[17]	Italian	Italy	RW Edizioni[18] – RW Lion	January 2015		97711219449-40015	B015EJNLS4	192		€7,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[19]	Spanish	Chile	Unlimited Comics[20]	August 2015		978-956-355-192-1		72		CL $2490
Superman: Paz en la Tierra[21]	Spanish	Spain	ECC Comics[22]	June 2016		978-84-16746-75-0		72		€12,50

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External links

• Sneak Peak of Batman War on Crime and Superman Peace on Earth

Works cited

• Superman: Peace on Earth at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)