Originally posted by Galan007
Possibly.But I still don't see him being left completely uninjured by 2 consecutive bursts of Darkseid's OE (early 90's, remember.) Nor do I think he was strong enough to nearly kill that same era Darkseid with 3-4 physical strikes. Heck, in Superman/Batman, Supes had to sun-amp just to become powerful enough to beat modern-era Darkseid that easily.
srug
yep. and it's not like that era superman didn't have some really good feats to his name as well. i think phil put together a list at one time and it was pretty damn impressive. jake's line of thought also presupposes that while superman underwent development, writers would simply have left dd as he was. it's really hard to compare eras like this, which is why, in this case, i fall back on writer intent to try and gauge hp dd. whipping down on waverider/amped kal and darkseid is still enormously impressive. and while his fear did play a role, dd also put the fear of god in darkseid himself, something pretty much unprecedented before or since.