DC's Elseworlds was a line of fun alternate reality stories and mini-series published mostly in the mid to late nineties. Each one explored a different, unique scenario that could never be done within the normal DCU continuity, transporting our favorite heroes to new locales and time periods to see what kind of stories resulted. And the result was usually super-duper fun! And every once in a while it was really, really bad, but we're not talking about those times today.

We're talking about the most common types of Elseworlds stories. Because whenever you give a creator free reign to write whatever he wants, he’ll always wind up writing"¦about Batman. But I’ve already talked about the Batman Elseworlds, so this time let's talk about the Superman stories.

So come with me as we ask the question:

“What if Superman"¦

                                                Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

10. The Superman Monster

"¦were the Frankenstein Monster?”

Yes, there was also a Batman Elseworld where HE became a Frankenstein. No, I don't know why DC's so obsessed with making characters into Frankensteins.

But anyway, this story follows Vicktor Luthor, who finds a crashed rocket with a dead baby inside. The rocket blasts Luthor with the history of Krypton, and he discovers how to use the rocket's built in Revival Matrix to bring back the dead. So he gathers a buncha dead people parts and makes a Frankenstein. The Frankenstein wanders off, as Frankensteins are wont to do, and it meets Johan and Martha Kant, who name him Klaus. Vicktor leads a mob to the Kants' home.

Stuff goes as you'd expect: Klaus escapes, Vicktor dies. It's a Frankenstein story – you know how these go.

It's a fun one and it interestingly sticks closer to the original novel, as opposed to the more iconic Universal Film. Give it a read.