Cover: Denys Cowan & Dick Giordano

Superman #420

Jun 1986 · DC · 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP

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“...And We Are the Dreamers of the Dreams!”

Superman #420 takes the Man of Steel back to Smallville for a battle the cover boldly promises he cannot win. Penciled by Denys Cowan and inked by Dick Giordano, the striking image shows Superman straining against a swarm of grotesque green creatures that coil and claw at him from every direction — while in the lower foreground, a sweating boy named Chris lies unconscious, seemingly the source of the nightmare threatening to destroy the hero. The plea "Wake up, Chris…before your dream kills me!!" gives the whole cover an eerie, imaginative charge that makes Elliot S! Maggin and Curt Swan's interior story genuinely hard to put down unread.

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writer Elliot S! Maggin · artist Curt Swan · inker Dave Hunt · colorist Gene D'Angelo · letterer Gaspar Saladino · cover Denys Cowan, Dick Giordano

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Full credits

writer Elliot S! Maggin

artist Curt Swan

inker Dave Hunt

colorist Gene D'Angelo

letterer Gaspar Saladino

cover pencils Denys Cowan

cover inks Dick Giordano

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Superman returns to Smallville to visit his friend Wayne Kling. Young Chris Parker Hunt has the ability to enter other's dreams and enters Superman's dream.

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