Comic Title: Action Comics #387
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: April 1970
On Sale Date: February 24, 1970 Copyright Date February 24, 1970
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1970

Newsstand Date February 24, 1970
Source: Comic Reader, #77

Newsstand Date February 26, 1970
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #386, Page 11
Letters Page

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Even a Superman Dies"
Pages: 16

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Cary Bates
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Roussos

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #386; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #127)

Villain(s)

• Time Trapper (last appearance in Action Comics #386; next appearance in Superboy #223)
• Lex Luthor (no appearance)
• Varlan Tro (an alien criminal; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Five astronauts (Ronn named; no further appearances)
• A tribe of prehistoric men (no further appearances)
• The master healer (a robot doctor; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jor-El (on Krypton)
• Lara (on Krypton)
• Krypto (on Krypton)
• Perry White (during the day he hired Clark Kent)

Comments:
This story is continued from the first story of Action Comics #386.

Lex Luthor's appearance in this story is depicted as an old man in the year 2000. However, Superman's return to the 20th Century at the conclusion of the story invalidates the timeline in which this appearance of Lex exists.

Synopsis:
In the distant future, Superman is still alive. He is blocked from returning to the 20th Century by the Time Trapper. Earth has become lifeless during this future, so the Man of Steel rectifies the situation by making the planet habitable once again. After Superman completes the task, a mechanical device, created millennia earlier by Lex Luthor, finds the Man of Steel and kills him.

Superman's lifeless body is quickly discovered and taken to a robot healer who restores him to life. Superman is angry because he wanted to die. He then tries to kill him in the tail of the Magnor Comet. Instead, the comet's special properties cause Superman to return to the era of his natural lifetime.