Comic Title: Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 4 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: August 24, 2005 Direct Market Date August 24, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #6 (#198)

Direct Market Date August 24, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Direct Market Date August 24, 2005
Source: Comic Shop News, #944

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 192
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "They Call Him -- Doctor Stratos"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Erik J. Larsen
Inker: John R. Beatty
Inker: Dick Giordano
Inker: Karl Kesel
Inker: Robert Lewis
Inker: Jerry Ordway
Inker: P. Craig Russell
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Inker: Robert Ian
Inker: Bill Wray
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted From:
Adventures of Superman #431 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #591; next appearance in Superman Annual #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #590; next appearance in Superman Annual #1)
• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #430; next appearance in Superman #10)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Constantine Stratos (no further appearances)
• The McGuffin Mob (no further appearances)
• Stratos's employees (Marianne, Hodor, Emil Markos, Melinda; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #65; next appearance in Adventures of Superman Annual #1)
• Nancy Reagan (next appearance in Millennium #3)
• George Bush (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #62; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Justice League #3; next appearance in Suicide Squad #5)
• Eddie (a street vendor; no further appearances)
• Gopher (custodian of the Planet micorfilm library; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Doctor Stratos, a man who claims to be a god, is able to manipulate the weather. He causes a May snowstorm in Metropolis and other severe weather around the world. He then calls the President with an extortion demand.

Superman is called in to deal with Stratos. First he must deal with the weather conditions around the world. He stops a tidal wave in London, breaks up deep fog in Paris, then helps people deal with snowstorms in Egypt and Morocco.

Superman realizes that Stratos is trying to exhaust him. He deduces that the weather is being controlled from orbit and heads for a satellite. Stratos responds by using a particle beam. Superman traces the satellite back to Stratos's lair. The particle beam strikes Superman just as he confronts Stratos. The villain is struck by the beam and apparently killed. Superman then deals with the scientists and shuts down the satellite.

Stratos is then reborn and promises vengeance.