"Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter" is a comic book story by Kyle Baker, co-written with Liz Glass.

Publication history

The story originally appeared in DC Comics' parallel universe anthology Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1 (June 1999). Baker drew, colored, lettered and, with Elizabeth Glass, wrote the 10-page story. In the story, the super-toddler climbs into a microwave oven. As a result, most copies were recalled and pulped. DC destroyed all copies of the issue intended for the North American market, though copies were still distributed in Europe.

Collected editions

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

Awards

2000 Eisner Award, 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/Vertigo graphic novel I Die at Midnight.