Comic Title: Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 5 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: November 15, 2006 Direct Market Date November 15, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #8 (#212)

Direct Market Date November 15, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 208
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Circle Turns"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Plotter/Penciller: Jerry Ordway
Inker: John R. Beatty
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted From:
Adventures of Superman #435 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #12; next appearance in Action Comics #595)

Supporting Character(s)

• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #434; next appearance in Superman #13)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in World of Krypton #4; next appearance in Action Comics #595)

Villain(s)

• The Circle (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #429; no further appearances)
• Zahara (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #429; no further appearances)
• Charger and Deuce (revealed as members of the Circle; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #430; no further appearances)
• Concussion (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #429; no further appearances)
• Mammoth (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #430; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #472)

Other Character(s)

• Mario Stuart (a race car driver; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Lois Lane (as a mental projection)
• Perry White (as a mental projection)
• Lex Luthor (as a mental projection)
• Wonder Woman (as a mental projection)
• Lana Lang (as a mental projection)
• Newsboy Legion (as a mental projection)
• Jonathan Kent (as a mental projection)
• Martha Kent (as a mental projection)
• Mental projections of the Legion of Super-Pets (Krypto, Comet, Streaky, and Beppo)

Synopsis:
Clark Kent is given permission to test drive a race car on the speedway. As he enters the first turn, Clark is psychically attacked by the Circle. He loses concentration on the car and crashes. To cover the fact that he was not injured, Clark claims to have been thrown free of the car before it crashed.

The Circle's agents Charger and Deuce break Concussion out of prison. They then attend a meeting of the Circle who realizes that it was wrong to try to kill Superman. Instead they want him to use his power to help them leave Earth.

Superman recognizes the Jurgens Building from the one he saw when under attack at the race track. He enters and is forced to battle mental projections of his friends. Eventually he agrees to help the Circle leave Earth as long as he stays behind. They agree. Superman then regains his senses and finds himself in the debris of the building. The Circle is gone.