Superman: The Man of Steel Solitude in issue #100 (May 2000). From 1992 to 1997, DC published six issues of "Superman: The Man of Steel Annual". The stories tied into the crossover or themes that were featured in DC's annuals that year. These were: In December 1995, a special "Superman: The Man of Steel Gallery" #1 was published. It features 22 pin-ups drawn by several artists. The title, "Superman: The Man of Steel", would be used again for a series of trade paperbacks collecting the early adventures of the post-Crisis Superman. The first volume collects and retitles "The Man of Steel" limited series. Superman: The
Superhero fiction Gail Simone has coined the term "Women in Refrigerators" (named after an incident in "Green Lantern" #54 where Kyle Rayner's girlfriend Alex DeWitt is murdered by the supervillain Major Force and stuffed into Rayner's refrigerator) to refer to this practice. Many works of superhero fiction occur in a shared fictional universe, sometimes (as in the cases of the DC and Marvel Universes) establishing a fictional continuity of thousands of works spread over many decades. Changes to continuity are also common, ranging from small changes to established continuity, commonly called retcons, to full reboots, erasing all previous continuity. It is also