DC Comics Rebirth & The Oz Effect Spoilers: Action Comics #988, #989 & #990 Variant Covers Have Best Look At Jor-El As Mr. Oz! Plus Superman Son Superboy!

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DC Comics Rebirth and The Oz Effect Spoilers follow.

We have seen the covers to the Oz Effect Part 1 that happened in Superman comic book Action Comics #987. That book revealed Mr. Oz as Superman’s dad Jor-El (spoilers here). Fans are skeptical that it is actually Jor-El, but Action Comics writer Dan Jurgens was unequivocal; Mr. Oz IS Jor-El (spoilers here).

Main Action Comics #987 cover solicited as by Nicholas Bradshaw for The Oz Effect Part 1.

Variant Action Comics #987 cover by Neil Edwards and Jay Leisten.

We also have an updated main cover solicited as by Robson Rocha and Daniel Henriques for Action Comics #988 for The Oz Effect Part 2.

Plus the variant cover for Action Comics #988 by Neil Edwards and Jay Leisten.

Plus we have the variany cover by Neil Edwards and Jay Leisten for October 2017’s Action Comics #989 with The Oz Effect Part 3 a much better look as Jor-El as Mr. Oz destroying the Daily Planet.

The main cover for Action Comics #989 is not yet available, but it is presumably by
Nicholas Bradshaw.

We also have the main cover by Nicholas Bradshaw for Action Comics #990 for The Oz Effect Part 4 with Jor-El / Mr. Oz and his grandson, Superman’s son Superboy.

The variant cover by Neil Edwards and Jay Leisten is also focusing on the two them.

Covers for November 2017’s Action Comics #991 with Part 5 of The Oz Effect have not yet been released.

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