Comic Title: Action Comics #596
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1988
On Sale Date: October 6, 1987 Shipping Date October 6, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #44

Shipping Date October 6, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #126

Newsstand Date October 27, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #126

Copyright Date October 6, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

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

Title: "Hell Is Where the Heart is..."
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)
Spectre (Post-Crisis)

Crossover Event:
Millennium

Writer/Artist: John L. Byrne
Inker: Keith Williams
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 7 TPB (2013)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 3 HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; next appearance in Millennium #5)
• Spectre (last appearance in Suicide Squad #8; next appearance in Millennium #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; next appearance in Action Comics #597)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; next appearance in Action Comics #597)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; next appearance in Action Comics #597)

Villain(s)

• The Manhunter replacement of Dr. Whitney (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The young residents of Smallville (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; no further appearances)
• Residents of Smallville (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #436; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Manhunters (in flashback)
• Green Lantern Corps (in flashback)
• Batman (in flashback)
• Green Lantern (in flashback)
• Krona (in flashback)
• Hawkman (in flashback)
• Captain Atom (in flashback)
• Herupa Hando Hu (in flashback)
• Nadia Safir (in flashback)
• Looker (in flashback)
• Kilowog (in flashback)
• Arisia (in flashback)
• Mr. Bones (in flashback)
• Rocket Red #7 (in flashback)
• Black Canary (in flashback)
• Black Lightning (in flashback)
• Firestorm (in flashback)
• Jade (in flashback)
• Booster Gold (in flashback)
• Jor-El (in flashback)
• Lara (in flashback)
• Dr. G.I. Whitney and his wife (in flashback)

Comments:
This issue is labeled:"Millennium Week 4".

This story is continued from Adventures of Superman #436.

Synopsis:
The Spectre senses evil in Smallville. On the outskirts of town he finds a crashed Manhunter space ship surrounded by the townspeople and Superman. The youth of Smallville were under Manhunter control, but now they are dead because their Manhunter leader, a robot double of Doc Whitney, was destroyed.

The Spectre proposes a way to save the souls of the dead. Superman puts himself at risk to enter the spiritual limbo in which the young people now reside. Inside the spirit world, Superman is confronted by Whitney's double. With the Spectre's help he is destroyed again. The young townspeople and Superman then awaken back in the real world. The young people including Lana Lang are left with no memories of their involvement with the Manhunters.