As the youthful Superman plays fetch (using a tree trunk) with Krypto, three strange men arrive and offer their help to Pa Kent during harvest season. Kindly couple." The twelve-issue "All-Star Superman" is mostly about the end of Superman's life, not the beginning, but in issue #6 it also features Morrison's only story about a young Clark Kent - this one dealing with his father. With the recent release of the "All-Star Superman" Volume 2 hardcover, it seems like a good time to reflect on Grant Morrison's entire Superman saga, looking at how all of his Superman stories fit together, from the beginning of his career through his most recent celebration of the character in "Final Crisis." If we consider every single one of his stories as part of a larger, self-contained continuity - if we imagine that everything from "Animal Man" through "JLA" and "All-Star Superman" tell the story of a single version of Superman - then what would that larger story be? Regardless of publication dates, what is Morrison's chronological Superman?The youngest Superman Morrison writes is in the opening page of "All-Star Superman" #1 from 2006, in which Morrison recaps the character's famous origin in a few terse lines: "Doomed planet. Young Superman and his Superdog from "All Star Superman" #6
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