And that has definitely been reflected in the disproportionate amount of times it has been adapted since then.
Published during a period in which stories were partly been driven by the booming speculators’ market for comic books that featured momentous stories or the first appearance of particular characters, The Death Of Superman is the definitive blockbuster arc of the era. That’s before the real Kal-El makes his inevitable return, because comics. If everyone had kept reading, they’d have found out about the emergence of four would-be Supermen, ranging from John Henry Irons’ Steel to the alien Eradicator. Unsurprisingly, sales fell off for the rest of the arc. January 1993’s Superman #75, an issue comprised entirely of splash pages, sold more than six million copies as a result of the hype surrounding it. In front of the Daily Planet building, the two finally exchange lethal blows. In terms of story, the arc saw Doomsday, a monster contrived purely for this story, arriving on Earth and making short work of the Justice League before going mano-a-mano with Superman. Although that kind of story is better written and executed, the iconic “Death Of Superman” story is the 1992-1993 arc of the same name, which attracted an unprecedented amount of mainstream media coverage when it was first revealed.