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Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" begins the final story of the Silver Age Superman, as written by legendary scribe Alan Moore. Superman's villains attack, revealing his secret identity to those closest to him! Continued in ACTION COMICS #583.

Lois suspects that Clark Kent is Superman. A vicious criminal uses innocent people, trapped by hypnotic power, who are armed with a bomb apparatus that makes it possible for them to rob without opposition from the police. Superman must solve a series of bold crimes that were pulled by ungainly men who look anything but formidable. Lex Luthor survives his execution in the electric chair, which only makes him more powerful.

When Superman arrives at Camp Towne to make an appearance, he volunteers to participate in the war games that will take place.

Superman must battle Lex Luthor, who is disguised as the Light, a criminal who kidnaps prominent men from many different fields, hypnotizes them with colored lights, and makes them do his bidding.

Two hard-working professors succeed in creating a process to enlarge the size of living organisms, but when they try the process on human beings, and succeed with dreadful results, the Man of Steel must intervene.

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After a run-in with four notorious underworld gang leaders (one of whom is killed in the process), Lois decides to write a series of articles exposing them. When Lois is arrested for wearing a stolen mink coat from Lacey’s Department Store, Clark Kent learns that a former Lacey’s employee sold it to her.

Clark Kent, concerned that the people of Metropolis seem oblivious to the Nazi threat to the world, approaches editor Perry White about writing a series of stories that will wake the citizens up to the realization that they are in danger. When an astronomer discovers the existence of a strange meteorite, Superman correctly guesses that it has something to do with the terrible heat wave engulfing Metropolis.

A clever gangster kills the wife of a prosecuting attorney, leaving evidence behind that her husband actually did it.

Superman battles against some members of the Committee Against Militarism, whose leader is actually employed by a warring totalitarian nation.