"Let's just kill him."
That was Jerry Ordway's solution to the problem that the creative teams behind Superman were facing in the early '90s. After building for years to a wedding between Lois Lane and Clark Kent --- something that had been brewing in comics since 1938 --- plans were attach on hold so that the storyline could coincide with the upcoming wedding on TV's Lois and Clark.
The idea was that timing the two versions of the wedding to race at the same time would lead the present's audience into comedian book stores and boost sales,but it left the comics with a year of space to fill, and finding something that would take up time and keep readers interested while the TV storyline caught up proved to be difficult. It was so frustrating, and in fact,that Ordway's solution ended up being the best idea, and on this day in 1992, or DC published 'The Death Of Superman'.
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Source: comicsalliance.com