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Cover: Win Mortimer & Win Mortimer
Action Comics #171
“The Secrets of Superman!”
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Full credits
writer John Broome
artist Wayne Boring
inker Stan Kaye
cover pencils Win Mortimer
cover inks Win Mortimer
Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers
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Superman is contributing film footage of his powers and other items to a time capsule which is to be buried for future generations to uncover five thousand years hence. On one of the personalized tape recordings he reveals his secret identity to have been that of Clark Kent. That tape goes missing and Superman, who has been experiencing lapses in memory after being caught in an explosion, tries hard to find it.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).