Action Comics #385
In "The Immortal Superman!", Superman faces a crisis of time and identity when he breaks his promise to the President and ventures into the distant future using a flawed Legion time bubble. Arriving in the year 101970, he discovers he’s aged a hundred thousand years and is trapped—unable to return to his own time, thanks to a hidden interference by the Time-Trapper. Written by Cary Bates and brought to life with Curt Swan’s iconic art and George Roussos’s inks, this landmark issue features a striking cover by Swan and Murphy Anderson.
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After promising the President not to travel through the time-barrier using his powers, Superman must use a defective Legion time bubble to answer a call for help from the future. When he arrives in the year 101970 he finds that he has aged a hundred thousand years, and that he is unable to return to his own time because the Time-Trapper has secretly blocked the way.
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