Infinite Crisis concludes this month, while the stories in all the DC books this month are set more than a year after that ending. While Batman and Wonder Woman fight Alexander Luthor, Superman and the Golden Age Superman battle Superboy Prime. They take Superboy Prime through Kryptonite remnants of the planet Krypton and through a red sun, crash landing on the living Green Lantern planet, Mogo. Superman's powers are completely exhausted in the fight, and the Golden Age Superman dies. The Green Lantern Corp arrives to capture the weakened Superboy Prime, and they imprison him in a cage inside a red sun. Alexander Luthor evades capture, but is then murdered by the Joker on the streets of Gotham. Clark, Bruce, and Diana reunite in the aftermath to reaffirm their friendships before each going on separate journeys of rediscovery, leaving the world without a Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Superman #651
Up, Up, and Away part 3
Clark Kent tries out the power ring that Green Lantern offered him, but he clearly doesn't see himself as Superman anymore. Instead of appearing as a green Superman, he's just a green Clark Kent. Lois confesses to Clark that she's enjoyed having him be human over the last year.
The Prankster goes on a rampage through Metropolis, causing mayhem in the streets while simultaneously prank calling on a Nokia 3310. Lex Luthor has some aliens break out the new Kryptonite Man from Styker's Island Prison. At his secret lab, Lex and the Toyman remove Metallo's Kryptonite heart, hilariously on an operating table resembling the game "Operation." Luthor adds the chunk of Kryptonite to a huge stockpile. Despite the book's modern appearance, it has a distinct Silver Age throwback evident by the choice in villains and by the overabundance of Kryptonite.
Action Comics #838
Up, Up, and Away part 4
Lex Luthor reveals he had discovered the existence of a Kryptonian vessel that had crashed on Earth in 1938. Using the Sunstone crystal, he's able to reactivate the ship and bring it to the surface from the center of the Earth where it had been hidden.
As Clark Kent's reporting exposes Intergang's corruption, Intergang sends the villains Neutron and Radion to get the reporter out of the way. While trying to get away from them, Clark is hit by an oncoming train. He wakes up dazed but not dead, and unexpectedly sees the impression of his hand print on the front of the crashed train.
Superman/Batman #26
Robin copes with the loss of his friend Superboy in a special post-Infinite Crisis story co-written by Jeph Loeb's recently deceased son, Sam Loeb, and illustrated by dozens of guest artists. Originally, this issue was conceived as a Sam Loeb story to be illustrated by Pat Lee, but while a mock-up Pat Lee cover was included as a bonus pin-up, Sam unfortunately never got to see it before he died.
In a flashback story, Superboy and Robin go to Japan to check in on the new teenage Toyman, Hiro, who Batman hasn't heard from in 30 days. At first it appears that an elaborate timed escape game has been set in place by the original Toyman, but it turns out that it was all a game devised by Hiro out of boredom. Superboy and Robin offer Hiro their friendship as an alternative to his loneliness.
In a backup story called Sam's Story, a young Clark Kent is inspired when a childhood friend dies of cancer.
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