Mr. Kent Goes to Washington
Superman finally confronts Cerberus and Senator Pete Ross and Lana Lang get caught up in a conspiracy with the Sons of Liberty in Washington, D.C.
The Man of Steel finds Cerberus' hideout in the middle of nowhere,
just as Metallo told him it would be. A giant rocket unexpectedly
bursts out of the ground and takes the trapped Man of Steel into space,
but he detonates it with his heat vision and flies back to find
Cerberus. Inside, Superman finds a horrific robot who selects from
hundreds of disembodied heads in jars to operate it. Superman removes
the head and thinks it's been deactivated, but then another creature
bursts up from the ground. This version of Cerberus has a giant face on
it's torso, picture eyes for nipples and a gaping mouth in its belly.
Cerberus doesn't seem to care about the other heads on the shelves and
destroys the entire base to fire another missile at Metropolis, but
Superman re-directs it back at the mountain where it explodes, leaving
no trace of Cerberus.
At the Daily Plant, Perry talks to his wife about hiring more minorities at the Daily Planet.
Jimmy Olsen goes to visit Lucy in the hospital but bumps into his old roommate who's there donating blood. She's excited to tell Jimmy that her band got a record deal and she kisses him just as Lucy is pushed by in a wheelchair.
Lastly, Lana's boss Judge Kramer and his lobbyist friend Harriman confront Seator Ross in his office to tell him they're holding Lana hostage to force him to assassinate the former leader of the Sons of Liberty, Major Holcraft.
Superman is at the Capital acting as the security guard for the Holcraft hearings. He let's his trusted childhood friend Pete go through without searching his briefcase. Inside the chamber, Pete Ross hesitates to take a smuggled gun out of his briefcase to assassinate Holcraft, but Agent Liberty disguised as a secret service agent pushes him aside and shoots the Major. Agent Liberty flees the scene and Superman rushes Holcraft to the hospital, but he dies before they reach it. That night Superman visits Pete Ross in jail to hear his side of the story, but Pete can't risk Lana's life if the Sons of Liberty find out he talked to Superman. Pete is taken to court where he's horrified to discover that Judge Kramer is trying his case. Even worse, Agent Liberty is waiting outside the window with a gun to assassinate Pete.
At Lexcorp, Luthor II and the mayor discuss putting Collin Thornton on a "Rebuild Metropolis" committee.
Jimmy Olsen appears to have patched things up with Lucy and offers to drive her home from the hospital. She collapses in the parking lot but doesn't want to bother going back to see a doctor again and asks him to just driver her home.
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Agent Liberty aims his gun at Pete Ross but stops to second guess why Pete strangely won't reveal the conspiracy to the judge. Superman goes to Pete and Lana's apartment where he finds the uncashed check the Liberty Foundation had given him and also learns Judge Kramer was Lana's boss. While leaving, he finds Agent Liberty arriving to look for clues too. The Sons of Liberty send a military helicopter to rescue Agent Liberty. Knowing that their weapons won't stop the Man of Steel, they fire missiles at the Washington monuments to distract him while Agent Liberty gets away. Superman tracks the helicopter to the Sons of Liberty's base where he rescues Lana.
At a prison colloquially referred to as "the Tombs", Pete Ross gets an unexpected new cellmate who turns out to be Harriman with a knife to kill him. Harriman is shot from behind by a guard who's really Agent Liberty in another disguise. Agent Liberty pays a visit to Judge Kramer and secretly records the conversation, he mail the tape and some stolen records to Clark Kent at the Daily Planet.
While the cover looks like a scene from the previous issue, this story is mostly an epilogue. Clark Kent is in the Capital covering the Pete Ross story while Superman encounters a villain named Shellshock who previously tangled with Hawk and Dove. Shellshock can make objects explode just by uttering a word, but she turns out to be a personality split from a metahuman fugitive who surrenders to Superman before Shellshock can destroy the Vietnam memorial.
Clark joins Lana in the Senate chamber to give the couple moral support, however before the Senate votes to censure Pete Ross, he resigns on the Senate floor. Clark feels guilty that if Pete Ross had known his secret identity like Lana, then things would have turned out differently.
We see Lex Luthor briefly on one page getting a massage from Supergirl while he calls Collin Thornton to ask him to run his committee. Unfortunately, there's no follow-up this month after last issue's shocking revelation.
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At the Daily Plant, Perry talks to his wife about hiring more minorities at the Daily Planet.
Jimmy Olsen goes to visit Lucy in the hospital but bumps into his old roommate who's there donating blood. She's excited to tell Jimmy that her band got a record deal and she kisses him just as Lucy is pushed by in a wheelchair.
Lastly, Lana's boss Judge Kramer and his lobbyist friend Harriman confront Seator Ross in his office to tell him they're holding Lana hostage to force him to assassinate the former leader of the Sons of Liberty, Major Holcraft.
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At Lexcorp, Luthor II and the mayor discuss putting Collin Thornton on a "Rebuild Metropolis" committee.
Jimmy Olsen appears to have patched things up with Lucy and offers to drive her home from the hospital. She collapses in the parking lot but doesn't want to bother going back to see a doctor again and asks him to just driver her home.
Adventures of Superman #492
Agent Liberty aims his gun at Pete Ross but stops to second guess why Pete strangely won't reveal the conspiracy to the judge. Superman goes to Pete and Lana's apartment where he finds the uncashed check the Liberty Foundation had given him and also learns Judge Kramer was Lana's boss. While leaving, he finds Agent Liberty arriving to look for clues too. The Sons of Liberty send a military helicopter to rescue Agent Liberty. Knowing that their weapons won't stop the Man of Steel, they fire missiles at the Washington monuments to distract him while Agent Liberty gets away. Superman tracks the helicopter to the Sons of Liberty's base where he rescues Lana.
At a prison colloquially referred to as "the Tombs", Pete Ross gets an unexpected new cellmate who turns out to be Harriman with a knife to kill him. Harriman is shot from behind by a guard who's really Agent Liberty in another disguise. Agent Liberty pays a visit to Judge Kramer and secretly records the conversation, he mail the tape and some stolen records to Clark Kent at the Daily Planet.
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Clark joins Lana in the Senate chamber to give the couple moral support, however before the Senate votes to censure Pete Ross, he resigns on the Senate floor. Clark feels guilty that if Pete Ross had known his secret identity like Lana, then things would have turned out differently.
We see Lex Luthor briefly on one page getting a massage from Supergirl while he calls Collin Thornton to ask him to run his committee. Unfortunately, there's no follow-up this month after last issue's shocking revelation.
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