Comic Title: Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2003
On Sale Date: October 1, 2003 Direct Market Date October 1, 2003
Source: Previews, Vol. 13 #8 (#176)

Direct Market Date October 1, 2003
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Cover Price: $19.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Secret Revealed"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Penciller: John L. Byrne
Inker: Terry Austin
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Thomas J. Ziuko

Reprinted From:
Superman #2 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Action Comics #585)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lana Lang (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)
• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Man of Steel #6; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #430)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Superman #4)
• Metallo (last appearance in Superman #1; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #441)
• Jenner and Breen (Lexcorp field agents; die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Amanda McCoy (a LexCorp administrator; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #448)
• Sydney Happersen (a LexCorp scientist; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)
• Gretchen Kelley (Luthor's doctor; first name not revealed in this story; next appearance in Superman #13)
• Several LexCorp employees (Dunlop, Poole, and Armstrong named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Luthor begins to compile data on Superman. He has teams investigate the connection between the Man of Steel and Clark Kent. The Kent home is ransacked by Luthor's agents who also take Lana prisoner. Lex's investigation shows that Lana was present at many of Superman's public appearance.

After Lana is questioned and beaten, she is released. She runs immediately to Clark, who becomes Superman and tracks down her kidnappers. However, Luthor has the facility bombed, killing his own agents in the process. Superman then confronts Luthor only to learn that Lex has taken the Kryptonite from Metallo and made it into a ring. When Superman approaches Lex, he begins to feel weak. Lex then throws the Man of Steel out of the office.

Superman takes Lana back to Smallville and fears that his parents are dead. They are alive, but they tell him that Luthor's men took several items including Martha's Superman scrap book and Clark's birth certificate. Luthor feeds the data into his computer which concludes that Clark is Superman. However, Luthor refuses to accept the computer's findings since he does not believe a being with Superman's power would disguise himself as an ordinary man. Luthor then orders the computer and all the data destroyed.