Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #461
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1989
On Sale Date: October 31, 1989 Shipping Date October 31, 1989
Source: Previews, #8

Shipping Date October 31, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #172

Shipping Date November 2, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #10

Copyright Date October 31, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Home"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inker: George Perez
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #38; next appearance in Action Comics #648)

Supporting Character(s)

• Colin Thornton (last appearance in Superman #38; next appearance in Action Comics #649)
• Lois Lane (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #460; next appearance in Superman #39)
• Professor Emil Hamilton (last appearance in Superman #38; next appearance in Superman #39)
• Jor-El (last appearance in Man of Steel #1; no further appearances)
• Lara (last appearance in Man of Steel #1; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Eradicator (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #460; next appearance in Superman #41)

Other Character(s)

• Hanks and Jesse (rescue workers; no further appearances)
• Alice (last appearance in Superman #38; next appearance in Superman #39)
• Marty and Peters (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #460; no further appearances)
• A hologram of Kem-El (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Superman #38.

Synopsis:
After helping Metropolis recover from a recent flood, Superman returns to the Daily Planet where Colin Thornton offers Clark Kent the position of editor of Newstime Magazine. Lois then mentions Jimmy Olsen's situation. Clark realizes that he has nearly forgotten Jimmy. To rectify the situation he visits Emil Hamilton's lab where he discovers more of his memories have been erased by the Eradicator.

Superman concludes that the Eradicator is responsible for the recent global environmental changes. He heads to Antarctica to destroy the Eradicator only to discover a massive Kryptonian fortress. Though Superman smashes some of the equipment, he is unable to stop the Eradicator itself.

Superman then enters a dimensional portal through which the Eradicator is bringing Kryptonian equipment. There he encounters a hologram of the Eradicator's inventor Kem-El. The hologram tells him the he must undergo a Kryptonian rite of passage to gain control of the Eradicator. To this end, Superman is sent back in time and space to the moment of Krypton's destruction. He meets his birth parents moments after they launches his birth matrix into space.

With the help of Jor-El, Superman completes the Kryptonian rite of passage. He then returns to Earth. The journey knocks him unconscious. When he awakens, the construction has ceased and the Eradicator has restored the Earth's environment to normal. Under the antarctic ice remains the Kryptonian fortress.