Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter
"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" | |
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Publisher | DC Comics |
Publication date | June 1999 |
Genre | |
Creative team | |
Writer(s) | Kyle Baker Liz Glass |
Artist(s) | Kyle Baker |
Colorist(s) | Kyle Baker |
Bizarro Comics | ISBN 1-56389-779-2 |
"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book story by Kyle Baker, co-written with .
Publication history[]
The story originally appeared in DC Comics' parallel universe anthology Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 (June 1999). Baker drew, colored, lettered and, with Elizabeth Glass, wrote the 10-page story. In the story, the super-toddler climbs into a microwave oven. When Paul Levitz, the president of DC Comics, objected to this portrayal of the infant Clark Kent, most copies were recalled and pulped. DC destroyed all copies of the issue intended for the North American market, though copies were still distributed in Europe.[1]
Collected editions[]
In May 2001 the story was reprinted in the Bizarro Comics hardcover (ISBN 1-56389-779-2). In April 2003 a softcover edition of Bizarro Comics (ISBN 1-56389-958-2) followed.
Awards[]
2000 Eisner Award, Best Short Story: "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" by Kyle Baker in Elseworlds 80-Page Giant
Also that year, Baker won the Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist: Humor based on both "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" and the DC Comics/Vertigo graphic novel I Die at Midnight.
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References[]
- Letitia Lerner at the Grand Comics Database
- Letitia Lerner at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
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