Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter
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"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book story by Kyle Baker, co-written with Liz Glass. It originally appeared in DC Comics' Elseworlds 80-page Giant #1 in June 1999, but the story, which included baby Superman crawling into a microwave oven and drinking milk directly from a cow, was deemed too offensive by the President of DC Comics, Paul Levitz, and the issue was pulped. However, around 2,000 copies of the issue had already been shipped to the UK and quickly became a highly sought after collector's item.
Although Elseworlds 80-page Giant was pulped, "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" earned Kyle Baker two 2000 Eisner Awards: For Best Short Story and for Best Writer/Artist - Humor. In his acceptance speech for the award, Baker ironically thanked Paul Levitz, "without whom none of this would have happened."[1]
In May 2001 the story was finally reprinted in the Bizarro Comics hardcover (ISBN 1-56389-779-2) and for the first time available to a wider audience. In April 2003 a softcover edition of Bizarro Comics (ISBN 1-56389-958-2) followed.
Later, Baker would use Lerner in an issue of Plastic Man, although she appeared only in what was clearly an alternate universe.
The name Letitia Lerner is an obvious reference to other Superman characters with double L initials such as Lois Lane, Lex Luthor, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris, and Linda Lee.
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- ^ Kyle Baker's Eisner Award acceptance speech (RealAudio). Comic Book Recources. Retrieved on July 14, 2006.
