This is one of my all-time favorite comic book stories, so dramatically told, and really portraying the truly heartfelt way that the people of Earth just love The Man Of Steel.
Written by original SUPERMAN co-creator, Jerry Siegel, this story appeared not long after Siegel returned to DC COMICS, after an absence brought on by the lawsuit he and partner Joe Shuster mounted against DC/NATIONAL to win back the rights to their character.
It is unquestionably one of the best SUPERMAN stories of "The Silver Age Of Comics", which occurred between 1956 and 1969, in this reader's opinion.
In this, one of DC's so-called "Imaginary Stories", because it happens outside of the normal SUPERMAN continuity,Lex Luthor is about as vile as a comic book villain could be, and Siegel's script has a couple of big surprises.
Don't reveal the shock ending to your friends!!!
As usual, Curt Swan's SUPERMAN is a real hero, portrayed realistically, but you can still feel that his pretty normal looking frame has "powers and abilities beyond those of mortal men".
I first read this story in the reprinted version in SUPERMAN # 193, which came out only about four years after the first printing, and, wow, it really affected my nine or ten year old brain at the time.
This story absolutely "made" reading SUPERMAN comic books for me, I loved them already, but this one is a true classic.
I recall re-reading it while my beloved BOSTON RED SOX broadcasts ran commercials during the 1967 "Impossible Dream" win against The Minnesota Twins.
Interestingly enough, I also read FATMAN THE HUMAN FLYING SAUCER and a DENNIS THE MENACE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL during those hot Summer day RED SOX wins!!!
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