History ComicBook / TimeAndTimeAgain

* TimeBomb: Dev-Em activates a series of bombs embedded within the Earth's moon by the Dominators that are set to go off in less than a minute. Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes rushes to stop both Dev-Em and the bombs, but ultimately Saturn Girl finds the button and stops the countdown with only a second or two left to spare. The Linear Man, realizing that the moon's destruction is the only way that he can send Superman back home to his own time, arrives at the scene to resume the countdown and destroy the moon.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: In this case, it's Meanwhile, In The Present Time... as the story cuts between Superman's time-traveling adventures and what's going on in Metropolis during the single night in the present time where Superman was absent. As for what was going on: Lois Lane waiting for Superman to return, Jimmy Olsen's date with Lucy Lane, the [=LexCorp=] board members discussing finding Lex Luthor's heir, and Bibbo Bibbowski getting himself drunk in his own bar.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: In this case, it's Meanwhile, In The Present Time... as the story cuts between Superman's time-traveling adventures and what's going on in Metropolis during the single night in the present time where Superman was absent.

* TimeTravel: A given in these stories, as Waverider and the Linear Men have this ability. Of course, Waverider steals a bit of Linear Men technology in order to deliver an explosive piece of equipment, the quantum field generator, from present-day Metropolis to the distant past where it will do no harm to anyone.

* TimeTravel: A given in these stories, as Waverider and the Linear Men have this ability. Of course, Waverider steals a bit of Linear Men technology in order to deliver an explosive piece of equipment from present-day Metropolis to the distant past where it will do no harm to anyone.

* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. His going from time period to another is caused by his exposure to explosions and energy surges, and also by the Linear Man's manipulations to send him to the point where a cataclysmic event would be able to send Superman back home to his own time. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.

In the story, a mysterious time traveler known as the Linear Man shows up in present-day Metropolis (circa 1991) to bring ComicBook/BoosterGold back to his own proper time period. In the middle of a fight between Linear Man and Booster Gold, Superman intervenes, but in the process he accidentally activates the Linear Man's time-traveling device, causing a hole in space-time that sucks Superman in and transports him to the 30th century where he meets with the first three members of the ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}. However, an explosion knocks him back in time to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, then another puts him back in the 30th century, then another sends him back to the Earth's prehistoric age, and so on.

* TimeTravel: A given in these stories, as Waverider and the Linear Men have this ability. Of course, Waverider steals a bit of Linear Men technology in order to deliver an explosive piece of equipment from present-day Metropolis to the distant past where it will do no harm to anyone.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Played with. At certain points, when Superman arrives from his time traveling in a place where there is no oxygen (like the Earth's moon or a dead planet), he is able to speak and breathe for a short period of time without any problem. In the seventh and final part of the story, when Dev-Em goes on his rampage and fights with Laurel Gand, there is enough oxygen to allow him to speak to his adversary before flinging her away.

* TimeTravel: Superman finds himself traveling uncontrollably between the past and the future, visiting three different incarnations of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the process. Superman spends a few months trying to get back home to his present time, but his disappearance from the present time occurs only over the course of a single night.

''Time And Time Again'' is a seven-part StoryArc that took place in the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' comic book titles in 1991. It was written by Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, and Jerry Ordway, with artwork by Dan Jurgens, Bob [=McLeod=], Jerry Ordway, Brett Breeding, Dennis Janke, Tom Grummett, and Jose Marzan.

* BreakingTheBonds: Part of Superman's circus act as The Mighty Samson whenever he appeared in the spotlight in 1943.

* MeaningfulRename: Superman is temporarily given the name The Mighty Samson during his time as a circus act in 1943, due to his incredible strength (even in how he dealt with a lion on the loose) and his temporary blindness.

* YourHeadAsplode: One of the reporters on the Earth's moon reporting Dev-Em's rampage is killed by a piece of debris flung at him at bullet-speed by Dev-Em that rips through his spacesuit helment and also through his head, causing this to happen.