Comic Title: Superman #2
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1987
On Sale Date: November 13, 1986 Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Copyright Date October 21, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "The Secret Revealed"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: John L. Byrne
Inker: Terry Austin
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Reprinted In:
Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told HC (1988)
Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told TPB (1989)
Superman:They Saved Luthor's Brain TPB (2000)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 2 TPB (2003)
Superman:The Greatest Stories Ever Told Vol. 2 TPB (2007)
Lex Luthor:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2016)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 1 HC (2020)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Action Comics #585)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Superman #4)
• Metallo (last appearance in Superman #1; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #441)
• Jenner and Breen (Lexcorp field agents; die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Amanda McCoy (a LexCorp administrator; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)
• Sydney Happersen (a LexCorp scientist; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)
• Gretchen Kelley (Luthor's doctor; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Superman #13)
• Several LexCorp employees (Dunlop, Poole, and Armstrong named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Luthor begins to compile data on Superman. He has teams investigate the connection between the Man of Steel and Clark Kent. The Kent home is ransacked by Luthor's agents who also take Lana prisoner. Lex's investigation shows that Lana was present at many of Superman's public appearance.

After Lana is questioned and beaten, she is released. She runs immediately to Clark, who becomes Superman and tracks down her kidnappers. However, Luthor has the facility bombed, killing his own agents in the process. Superman then confronts Luthor only to learn that Lex has taken the Kryptonite from Metallo and made it into a ring. When Superman approaches Lex, he begins to feel weak. Lex then throws the Man of Steel out of the office.

Superman takes Lana back to Smallville and fears that his parents are dead. They are alive, but they tell him that Luthor's men took several items including Martha's Superman scrap book and Clark's birth certificate. Luthor feeds the data into his computer which concludes that Clark is Superman. However, Luthor refuses to accept the computer's findings since he does not believe a being with Superman's power would disguise himself as an ordinary man. Luthor then orders the computer and all the data destroyed.