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DC·Adventures of Superman·Jon Kent·#1·Postmodern Age·ID-4891276
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Abraham Sapien

Planetary Heavyweight
TACTICAL VERDICT: Abe Sapien triumphs with an estimated 50% win probability. The primary decider was the stark differential in martial combat execution (85 vs 65).
Abin Sur dictates early tempo, utilizing superior speed and reflexes (53 vs 35) to evade initial advances and land decisive precision strikes.
Abin Sur counters with devastating offensive potency (99 Power rating), breaking through Abe Sapien's forward defensive perimeter.
In the grueling war of attrition, Abe Sapien's supreme hand-to-hand discipline (85 Combat) and endurance (65 Durability) break Abin Sur's posture, securing a definitive victory.
Tom Taylor
Clayton Henry
Clayton Henry
Jordie Bellaire
Wes Abbott
Jillian Grant
Home of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Justice League.
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In an another reality, an alternate version of Superman is murdered by Ultraman, who departs through a portal in search of the next Kal-El to kill. On Earth 0, thousands of satellites owned by Lord Industries simultaneously fall out of orbit and hurtle towards Earth. With most of the Superman Family off-planet, Jon Kent rushes to try to destroy them all before they hit the ground, but even with the hasty assistance of other heroes it seems he will not make it. As he races to stop the satellites he feels a power build up within him and lightning starts to spark off him, but he suddenly hears a voice say he is coming to help. He loses concentration and the power stops. Oracle informs him that all the satellites over Asia have mysteriously disappeared and so Jon destroys the debris falling towards first Africa and then Europe. As Jon travels East, something else heads West from Asia, stopping the satellites as they fall. Their trajectories meet in Germany where Jon finds a man in a Superman costume catching the final satellite. He introduces himself as Val-Zod and Jon quickly realises he is from another universe. Val-Zod takes Jon to the Kent Farm to meet with Mister Terrific, who he has met before and can vouch for him. Holt confirms that Val and his ally Red Tornado are heroes. Val and Tornado tell Jon and Lois that Ultraman is travelling through the Multiverse murdering every alternate version of Kal-El he can find, using a device that allows him to drain their powers. As Ultraman's device is specifically tuned to Kal-El's DNA, Jon is immune and they need him to come with them and stop him. Lois refuses to let him go, as Ultraman tortured Jon for years when he imprisoned him in a volcano; but to their shock Red Tornado reveals that she is the Lois Lane of Earth 2 and says Jon is the only one who can stop Ultraman.
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Jon is surprised by the arrival of Val-Zod from Earth-2, who warns Jon that Ultraman is travelling from one Earth to another and killing the Kal-El of each world, and that they will need to team up to stop Ultraman before he kills Jon's father.
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Victor von Doom

Mr. Mxyzptlk
TACTICAL VERDICT: Abe Sapien triumphs with an estimated 58% win probability. The primary decider was the stark differential in martial combat execution (85 vs 64).
Abe Sapien dictates early tempo, utilizing superior speed and reflexes (35 vs 17) to evade initial advances and land decisive precision strikes.
An apocalyptic kinetic collision rocks the arena as A-Bomb and Abe Sapien's signature arsenals collide in a deadlocked shockwave.
Exploiting an opening in the late exchanges, Abe Sapien's elite martial execution (85 Combat) overwhelms A-Bomb, landing the closing blow to claim the battle.