Cover: Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson

Action Comics #386

Mar 1970 · DC · 0.15 USD

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“The Home for Old Super-Heroes!”

In Action Comics #386, Superman faces a mind-bending twist when the Time-Trapper’s scheme traps him in a distant future where superpowers are outlawed. Written by Cary Bates and brought to life by Curt Swan’s iconic art with George Roussos’s inks, the story follows a desperate act of defiance that challenges a society built on fear—set against a stark, futuristic world where even saving a life could be a crime. The cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson captures the eerie grandeur of that far-flung era.

writer Cary Bates · artist Curt Swan · inker George Roussos · letterer Ben Oda · cover Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson

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Full credits

writer Cary Bates

artist Curt Swan

inker George Roussos

letterer Ben Oda

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks Murphy Anderson

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The Time-Trapper's plot against Superman has sealed off his own time period, and he can only travel forward through time. In the year 122,470, he learns that super-powers are prohibited by law, but he decides to break the law in order to save a woman's life, and in doing so he eventually proves the foolishness of the law.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).