"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 story by Kyle Baker

Kyle Baker

Kyle John Baker is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series Plastic Man....

, co-written with Liz Glass.

Publication history

The story originally appeared in DC Comics

DC Comics

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' parallel universe

Parallel universe (fiction)

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 anthology Elseworlds 80-Page Giant

Elseworlds 80-Page Giant

The Elseworlds 80-Page Giant is an 80-page collection of Elseworlds stories published by DC Comics. The collection was withdrawn and pulped after DC became concerned about a scene in one of the stories.-Publication history:...

#1 (June 1999). Baker drew, colored

Colorist

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, lettered

Letterer

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 and, with Elizabeth Glass, wrote the 10-page story. DC destroyed all copies of the issue intended for the North American

North American

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 market after deeming some of the issue's contents unsuitable, through copies were still distributed in Europe

Europe

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Collected editions

In May 2001 the story was reprinted in the Bizarro Comics hardcover (ISBN 1-56389-779-2). In April 2003 a softcover edition of Bizarro Comics (ISBN 1-56389-958-2) followed.

Awards

2000 Eisner Award

Eisner Award

The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...

, Best Short Story: "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" by Kyle Baker in Elseworlds 80-Page Giant

Also that year, Baker won the Eisner Award for Best Writer/Artist: Humor based on both "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" and the DC Comics

DC Comics

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/Vertigo

Vertigo (comics)

Vertigo is an imprint of the American comic-book publisher DC Comics. Its books are marketed to a sophisticated audience, and may contain graphic violence, substance abuse, frank depictions of sexuality, profanity, and controversial subjects...

 graphic novel

Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using sequential art in either an experimental design or in a traditional comics format...

I Die at Midnight.