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The author's original version of Chapter 13
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Table of Contents
Chapter 14
(The author's original version; unpublished)
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Mark Waid Notes:
"The novel that Maggin is doing is brilliant; it had to be this enormously thick hard cover prose text book, and I'm
reading chapter after chapter and he's using 30% of Kingdom Come and 70% new stuff, and it's just amazing the stuff he's
coming up with. So anyone that likes
Kingdom Come, this is required
reading."
Excerpt from Chapter One: City of Dreams
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I had lost my faith in an interesting way. I believed in the
existence of everything: Heaven, Hell, the Angelic Host, demons and
possession, redemption and growth, the value in spiritual terms of the
suffering of the innocent, our place in the Universe and the
Universe's place in Creation. I believed in God and all His glory. I
believed in Immaculate Conception and Original Sin. I believed in
something I called Original Sainthood. I believed in Santa Claus and
that men had walked on the Moon. I believed that an educated man who
does not believe in miracles is not a realist. I bought it all.
Always had. Still do.
I just did not feel a part of it anymore.
My loss of faith had to do with the continual reminder, on a
moment-to-moment basis, to myself and everyone I had ever loved, that
we were insignificant, and that the imminent possibility of the loss
of our lives and even our immortal souls probably did not matter a
damn, either to God or to His emissaries on Earth.
It was a world without a Superman.
By Elliot S! Maggin
Interview by Superman Through the Ages!
This book should be available at your local bookstore. Many stores put in a very small initial order and may be sold out, so if you are trying to track down a copy you may want to check with their customer service department. It is also currently available at our on-line bookshop for only $5.85 and will be shipped within 24 hours.
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PUBLICATION INFORMATION:
First Edition: Hardcover;
Warner Aspect, March, 1998
ISBN 0-446-52234-1
352 pages
Second Edition: Paperback;
Warner Books, September, 1999
ISBN 0-446-60669-3
416 pages
Author:
Elliot S! Maggin
Illustrator:
Alex Ross
Based on the story by Alex Ross and Mark Waid
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