ACTION COMICS (1938) #696

Still testing his newfound ability to travel unaided amid the stars, Superman encounters the lonely champion of an alien planet…a being doomed to protect a barren world in the hopes that his race will one day return. Notes: Cover designed by Ed Hannigan, penciled and inked by Jackson Guice and colored by Suzanne Bourdages. Matrix, Inspector Henderson and Gemir cameo flashback appearances. Triangle 1994 #8. Chronological continuation from Adventures of Superman #509 . Chronological continuation in Superman: The Man of Steel #31 .