Originally posted by operator616
Never said he defeated it by giving him hope. All i said that the end result of all this was superman giving death hope.The very next page shows that death was fine. So what did superman do exactly? Superman defeated it in the sense that he proved that death is not the master of all things, it's not like he defeated death physically because we see it unharmed exactly 1 page afterwards.
Anyway, i didn't reply to this the 2nd time because i know you'll disagree.
Yes, superman gave Death hope because he learnt something which he wasn't supposed to learn. Happens all the time. It doesn't mean he wasn't beaten. Its like saying just because Darkseid survived after superman beat the shit out of him, he wasn't beaten. Superman defeated Death by just punching him, Death appeared later to him, conceded to him and said he got some hope from superman and that's it.
Except superman beat him physically and that's why Death released him in the first place when he was denying it just one page before superman punched through him and Death didn't concede about psychologically beaten just one page after.