Comic Title: Action Comics #597
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1988
On Sale Date: November 3, 1987 Shipping Date November 3, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #45

Shipping Date November 3, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #128

Newsstand Date November 27, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #128

Copyright Date November 3, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

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

Title: "Visitor"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: John L. Byrne
Inker: Leonard Starr
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 Millennium #8; next appearance in Superman #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #437; next appearance in Superman #15)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Action Comics #596; next appearance in World of Smallville #2)
• Gangbuster (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #437; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #439)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Action Comics #596; next appearance in World of Smallville #1)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Action Comics #596; next appearance in World of Smallville #1)

Other Character(s)

• Several Smallville residents (Peg named; no further appearances)
• Sam Lane (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #424)
• Lucy Lane (in flashback; as a baby; next appearance in World of Metropolis #2)
• Elinore Lane (in flashback; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #424)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Lois Lane (as a child; earliest chronological appearance; next appearance in World of Metropolis #1)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Batman (as a thought image)
• Green Lantern (as a thought image)
• Flash (as a thought image)
• Martian Manhunter (as a thought image)
• Hawkman (as a thought image)

Synopsis:
Lois Lane visits Smallville to discover what happened to Clark Kent after his encounter with Lana Lang at the Daily Planet. She sees the Manhunter space ship outside of town and wonders why no one outside of town knows about it. She then finds Lana talking to Superman.

Lana, Superman, and Lois begin a guarded discussion. Lana and Superman explain that they know one another. When Lois asks if Clark Kent is Superman the conversation is interrupted by the Kents. Martha explains that they found Kal-El's rocketship and raised him alongside Clark.

Lois is furious. She thinks Clark and Superman have been playing a joke on her for years. She storms out. Clark visits her at the Smallville motel, but Lois doesn't want to hear him out. Lana then approaches Lois before she leaves town. Lana tells Lois that Clark is in love with her.

Lois returns to Metropolis. She visits Jose Delgado in the hospital. Superman is there too, but Lois now wants him to leave her alone.