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 cover depicts Superman in an oversized one-shot featuring a cardstock cover with a metallic fifth-color ink. As the holiday season approaches, his alter ego, 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. As Superman sets out to accomplish the impossible, he encounters unexpected resistance to his humanitarian efforts.

Plot

After helping to start the Christmas season in Metropolis, Superman finds a starving young woman that leads him to look up the topic of world hunger. Wanting to help, Superman proposes to the United Nations to help 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's 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. He decides to be an example to others, sharing his knowledge to anyone in need and hopes to inspire the world.

Awards

Foreign versions

Due its universal story, social relevant content, fluid narrative and all-age subject, 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 TitleLanguageCountriesPublisherRelease dateEAN-13 / ASINPagesDimensionsList Price
Super-Homem: Paz na Terra Portuguese Brazil Editora Abril May 1999 64 10" x 13" ½ R$12,90
Superman: Pace in Terra Italian Italy Play Press June 1999 B00XC9T8PE 64 10" x 13" ½ L 20,000
Superman: Paix sur Terre French Belgium Le Téméraire September 1999 76 9" ¼ x 12" ½ 129 FF, 794 BF
Superman: Friede auf Erden German Germany Carlsen Comics December 1999 64 8 ½" x 11" ½ DEM 19,90
Superman: Friede auf Erden German Germany Carlsen Comics December 1999 68 8 ¾" x 11" ¾ DEM 49,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra 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 Castellan Spain Norma Editorial June 2000 64 29 x 22 cm $1,250.00 PESETAS
スーパーマン/ピース・オン・アース Japanese Japan Shogakukan June 2000 68 8 ¾" x 11" ¾ ¥ 1,333
Superman Hors-Série #1: Paix sur Terre French France
Belgium
Switzerland
Canada		 Semic Comics September 2000 379873802900 FR 6410 ½" x 7" 29,90 F
8,20 FS
210 FB
CAN $7,50
Superman: Paix sur Terre French France Soleil Productions April 2001 76 9" ½ x 12" ¾ 99 FF
슈퍼맨: 땅 위에 평화를 Korean South Korea Sigongsa December 2009 64 254*345*15 mm $10,000
Superman: Pace in Terra
DC Comics Story N.15 – Master 24 N.32		 Italian Italy RW Edizioni – RW Lion January 2015 97711219449-40015 B015EJNLS4 192 €7,90
Superman: Paz en la Tierra Spanish Chile Unlimited Comics August 2015 72 CL $2490
Superman: Paz en la Tierra Spanish Spain ECC Comics June 2016 72€12,50
Superman: Vrede op Aarde Dutch Netherlands Dark Dragon Books 2022 64€ 10,95
Superman: Friede auf Erden German Germany Panini Deutschland September 2021 76 26 x 36 cm€ 27,00
Superman: Paz na Terra Portuguese Brazil Panini Comics Brasil August 2025 72 25 x 35 cm R$99,90