Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #445
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 1988
On Sale Date: June 28, 1988 Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #5

Shipping Date June 30, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Newsstand Date July 23, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #142

Copyright Date June 28, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date June 28, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

Newsstand Date July 12, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #758, #760, #762

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

Title: "Headhunter"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: Jerry Ordway
Inker: Dennis Janke
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Reprinted In:
Lois and Clark, the New Adventures of Superman TPB (1994)
Superman:The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in World of Metropolis #3; next appearance in World of Metropolis #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman #21; next appearance in World of Metropolis #4)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman #21; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)
• Maggie Sawyer (last appearance in Superman Annual #2; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)
• Jose Delgado (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #442; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)
• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Superman #20; next appearance in Superman #24)
• Bill Henderson (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #439; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #447)
• Lois Lane (last appearance in World of Metropolis #2; next appearance in Superman #23)
• Jerry White (last appearance in World of Metropolis #1; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superman #22; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)
• Martha Kent (mostly behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Superman #22; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)

Villain(s)

• Brainiac (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #441; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #447)
• Milton Fine (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #441; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #447)
• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Superman #21; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)

Other Character(s)

• Peter James Shoemaker (dies in this story; last appearance in Superman #17; no further appearances)
• Eugene and his friend (street kids; no further appearances)
• Adele De Havenet (an employee of Luthor; no further appearances)
• Doctor Howard (last name revealed; last appearance in Superman #20; no further appearances)
• Chuck and his partner (EMTs; no further appearances)
• A bartender and Dave (a drunk; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Jimmy Olsen investigates a series of missing homeless men. The police correctly tie the abductions to Milton Fine, who now serves as the host for Brainiac. He has been extracting spinal fluid from his victims to stave off the rejection Fine's body is having to the possession of his alien mind. Cat Grant and Jimmy run into Fine and are captured. Brainiac then activates Jimmy's signal watch to summon Superman, who is brooding over his execution of the Phantom Zone criminals. Superman fights Brainiac and nearly kills him. The comatose Fine is then turned over to the police and medical personnel.