Superman Annual #4

	Date:	1992
	Title:	“Enduring the Night!” (Cover Title: “The Eclipsing of Lois Lane!”)
	Credits:	Eclipso rants about his plan to eclipse Superman to the imprisoned Lar Gand. Only scenes dealing with Legion of Super-Heroes characters are covered here.
	Plot:	Dan Vado (Writer) • Scott Benefiel (Penciller) • Trevor Scott (Inker) • Albert De Guzman (Letterer) • Matt Hollingsworth (Colorist) • Dan Thorsland (Assistant Editor) • Mike Carlin (Editor) • Joe Quesada / Jimmy Palmiotti (Cover)
Character and Object Tracking Analysis Notes CHANGE HISTORY Date of Change Content of Change 01/07/00 Posted 07/21/00 Date correction 07/24/00 Typo fix Tinted cells and text indicate missing or incomplete information.

Character and Object Tracking

Heroes

Villains

Locations

Name	Previous Appearance	Next Appearance
Heroes
Lar Gand	< >	<Justice League America Annual #6>
Superman (Clark Kent)	No appearance; mention only
Villains
Eclipso	< >	<Justice League America Annual #6>
Locations
Eclipso’s stronghold, Luna	< >	<Justice League America Annual #6>
Crater Bay, Maine	No appearance; mention only

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Analysis Notes

General	Only page 19 is dealt with here.
	This is part of the 1992 summer annuals event “Eclipso: The Darkness Within”.  It started and ended with double-sized special issues, and ended up launching a short ongoing Eclipso series.
19:2-3	During almost the entire set of annuals, Lar Gand — this being prior to his assuming the name Valor — was eclipsed and immobilized in Eclipso’s stronghold on the dark side of the moon.  This earned him nicknames like “Lar Gand, the world’s mightiest mannikin.”
19:3	Eclipso’s plan was apparently to eclipse the world’s most powerful heroes and use them to conquer everything else.  Superman and Lar Gand would act as his point men, presumably, and he had to have both under control to keep either from stopping the other.

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