Superman #21/1974

When a bar singer vanishes under mysterious circumstances, Batman races to intercept her captors—only to learn she’s being taken to the cursed Geisterberg in Darkhill Country. There, the skeptical Sheriff Doppler refuses to help, citing an old family curse tied to the Tull bloodline, and Batman soon finds himself outnumbered and outmatched as shadows stir on the mountain.

When Clark bites into a candy and suddenly suffers crippling tooth pain, the dentist treating him reveals a shocking truth: he’s not a doctor at all, but the Kryptonian criminal Dr. Xadu—once imprisoned by Superboy alongside his ally Zeda. As Superman grapples with the revelation, strange influences begin to surface, and even his closest allies, Lois Lane and Steve Lombard, notice something’s off. With Dr. Hill and Jimmy Olsen caught in the mystery, the line between friend and foe blurs in this chilling tale of forgotten pasts and hidden agendas.

In a quiet moment at an orphanage, Superman shares a tale his mother Lara once told him on Krypton: young Prinzessin Reena, lost in the mystical Glaswald, faces a fearsome Kiri-Vogel whose thoughts manifest on a screen. When she struggles to make the creature understand she needs help, the bird flies away — only to summon El-Kin, the Glassbaumpfleger, whose timely arrival changes everything.