Superman (Volume 2) #150 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 2) with a cover date of November, 1999.
Synopsis for "Earth's Final Hour"
Soaring through the air, Superman summarizes the past events for Professor Hamilton.
Long, strange cylinders have buried themselves into locations around the world, as Superman attempts to make sense of this invasion. Breaking off his conversation with Hamilton, Superman springs into action, as the mysterious missiles plant themselves around him on Mount Rushmore. Crashing into a few of them, he helps to destroy a minuscule amount of the invading cylinders, but looking around, realizes that he has ultimately failed. As Superman surveys his work, Hamilton urges him to make his way back to Metropolis, where more of the cylinders are appearing.
Arriving in Metropolis, Superman is just about to get the scoop from Hamilton as to what is going on, when a giant tanker truck flies up into the air and smashes into him. The explosion destroys the headset Superman wears as the Man of Steel looks around for the attacker that has thrown the vehicle at him. Suddenly hit from behind, Superman plunges downwards and turns around, only to encounter Vartox, an alien Superman met before. A perplexed Superman, believing the group of aliens he met earlier to be his allies, does not understand when Vestion and Paz show up as well to initiate battle with the hero.
As the battle rages on, Superman slowly weakens to the threesome's might. A powerful blast of Kryptonite does not improve matters and as Superman falls to the ground in pain, a dark shadow looms over him. Looking up, he sees Brainiac, who reveals his scheme to destroy the Earth and then kill Superman. He has assembled the group of aliens against Superman by using the aliens' home planets as ransom. Superman quickly understands that the aliens have had no choice but to do what Brainiac says for the good of their own planet.
Before Superman can be finished off slowly by Brainiac, he uses his heat vision to explode a gas main underneath the assemblage of super-powered individuals. The explosion helps to bury Superman in wreckage, where he changes to Clark Kent.
Meanwhile, Lois and Pete Ross have a brief discussion about the Ross' baby boy who they have named Clark. The entire incident is pointless however, so as Lois says, "Enough soap opera. There's a story developing."
After taking a brief rest, Superman flies to an abandoned building as Brainiac reveals his plan to blow up all the cylinders that have landed on the Earth. Attacking Superman, the three aliens make quick work of him. But when Paz start to question Brainiac about letting them free, Brainiac destroys Paz's planet. This cruel action gives Superman the opportunity to team up with the three aliens into turning against Brainiac on board his spaceship. The entire group moves so swiftly that Brainiac has no time to detonate their worlds and Paz then transports Brainiac to the fuel pods where he is incinerated. Under Superman's instruction, the group quickly tears apart the ship and stops all communications so that Brainiac won't be able to destroy their home worlds. Brainiac, however, survives his ordeal and manage to blow Superman and the others off his ship. As Brainiac escape, Vartox, Vestion, and Paz set off after him as they urge Superman to stay and guard his planet.
Appearing in "Earth's Final Hour"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
Locations:
- Mount Rushmore
- Metropolis
- Pr. Hamilton's Lab
- 1938 Sullivan Place
Items:
- Omega Spears
Vehicles:
Notes
- Superman navigation number 1999/44.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Superman Recommended Reading
- Action Comics (Volume 1)
- Action Comics (Volume 2)
- Adventures of Superman (Volume 1)
- Batman/Superman (Volume 1)
- Batman/Superman (Volume 2)
- Batman/Superman: World's Finest (Volume 1)
- DC Comics Presents (Volume 1)
- Superman (Volume 1)
- Superman (Volume 2)
- Superman (Volume 3)
- Superman (Volume 4)
- Superman (Volume 5)
- Superman (Volume 6)
- Superman/Batman (Volume 1)
- Superman Confidential (Volume 1)
- Superman: Son of Kal-El (Volume 1)
- Superman: The Man of Steel (Volume 1)
- Superman: The Man of Tomorrow (Volume 1)
- Superman/Wonder Woman (Volume 1)
- World's Finest (Volume 1)
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