Comic Title: Superman #25
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1988
On Sale Date: September 20, 1988 Shipping Date September 20, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #8

Shipping Date September 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Newsstand Date October 15, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #148

Copyright Date September 20, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Head Trips"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roger Stern
Penciller: Kerry Gammill
Inker: John R. Beatty
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Petra Scotese (Goldberg)

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Swamp Thing #79; next appearance in Wonder Woman Annual #2)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Swamp Thing #79; next appearance in Lex Luthor:The Unauthorized Biography #1)
• Brainiac (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #447; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)
• Milton Fine (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #447; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)

Other Character(s)

• Alice (last appearance in Superman #20; next appearance in Superman #27)
• Mrs. Parkinson (no further appearances)
• Several of Luthor's assistants (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Perry White (in Superman's hallucination)
• Lois Lane (in Superman's hallucination)
• Jimmy Olsen (in Superman's hallucination)
• Catherine Grant (in Superman's hallucination)

Synopsis:
Luthor hires doctors to remove the tumor from the head of Milton Fine. In its place, Lex implants a device which forces the mental wizard to work for him. Brainiac uses his mental power to give Superman several hallucinations in which he kills his own friends. Eventually Superman suspects Brainiac and goes to check on Fine. A battle ensures. It appears that Fine killed himself during the fight.

Weeks later, Brainiac shows up alive and well at LexCorp. He used his abilities to fake his own death. During the time he was thought to be dead, he had Luthor's implant removed. Now that he is free of Lex's control, Brainiac suggests a partnership.