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Cover: Ross Andru & Dick Giordano
Action Comics #492
“Superman's Secret Afterlife!”
writer Cary Bates · artist Curt Swan · inker Frank Chiaramonte · colorist Gene D'Angelo · letterer Ben Oda · cover Ross Andru, Dick Giordano
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Cast · 2 characters
Full credits
writer Cary Bates
artist Curt Swan
inker Frank Chiaramonte
colorist Gene D'Angelo
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils Ross Andru
cover inks Dick Giordano
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Superman returns from a mission in space to learn Lois and Lana have been threatened. He saves Lana, but Lois mysteriously dies. The next morning, Superman wakes to find that it is 1988 and he is married to Lana. This future has all sorts of appeals to it. He then wakes up further in the future, when he has children. But then Lana and the kids all die. It all turns out to be a plot by the Phantom Zone villains to get Superman to kill himself, but he overcomes their illusions.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).