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ACTION COMICS #596
Cover Date: January 1988
Cover Price: $0.75
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Cover Credits:
Art: John Byrne (signed)
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Credits:
| Story | John Byrne |
| Pencils | John Byrne |
| Inks | Keith Williams |
| Colors | Tom Ziuko |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Mike Carlin |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Adventures of Superman #436; next in Millennium #5)
Guest Star(s):
- Spectre (last in Spectre Vol. 2 #10; next in Millennium #5)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jonathan Kent (last in Adventures of Superman #436)
- Martha Kent (last in Adventures of Superman #436)
- Lana Lang (last in Adventures of Superman #436)
- Pete Ross (last in Adventures of Superman #436; behind the scenes; next in Superman Vol. 2 #45)
- Jim Corrigan III (last in Spectre Vol. 2 #10; next in Millennium #5)
- Kim Liang (last in Detective Comics #582; behind the scenes; next in Millennium #5)
Villain(s):
- Dr. Whitney's Manhunter replacement (last in Adventures of Superman #436;as a spirit-simulacrum; destroyed)
Other Character(s):
- Major Rutherford B. Small (first appearance; the mayor of Smallville)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Krona (flashback)
- Green Lantern Corps (flashback)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- United States of America
- Earth
Comment(s):
- A "Millennium Week 4" crossover issue.
Synopsis:
It is Halloween and the supernatural avenger Spectre is drawn to Smallville after the recent Manhunter activity that has left a heartbroken Superman looking out over a field of dead bodies. Every child born in Smallville since Superman arrived from Krypton as a baby, was secretly made into a Manhunter agent through cybernetic implants, and now that their Manhunter masters have been destroyed the sleeper agents have all perished too. Superman feels responsible, since the purpose of turning these people into sleeper agents was for the Manhunters to be able to monitor his activities. The Spectre offers him a chance to save the people of Smallville, and they both enter the astral plane where they find a version of the town inhabited by the dead. They are attacked by Dr. Whitney – secretly a true Manhunter android – but when the Spectre discovers that they are experiencing a simulation and not a true spiritual plane, he destroys Whitney and the people are revived.