Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #434
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 18, 1987 Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date August 18, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #123

Shipping Date July 28, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mike Carlin

Title: "Shambles"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Jerry Ordway
Inker: Jose F. Marzan, Jr.
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 5 TPB (2007)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 2 HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #11; next appearance in Action Comics #594)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #11; next appearance in Action Comics #594)
• Perry White (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; next appearance in Action Comics #594)
• Gangbuster (first appearance in costume; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #437)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman #11; next appearance in World of Krypton #4)
• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Superman #11; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #435)
• Bill Henderson (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #432; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #439)
• Jerry White (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #438)
• Alice White (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #428; next appearance in World of Metropolis #1)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; next appearance in Booster Gold #23)
• Sapperstein (name revealed in this story; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #433; no further appearances)
• Jay Falk and several gang members (no further appearances)
• Max Carter (next appearance in Adventures of Superman #446)

Other Character(s)

• Ron Chin (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #432; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #438)
• A prison warden (no further appearances)
• Mr. Physt (a night watchman; no further appearances)
• Edith Kane (a TV news reporter; no further appearances)
• Evelyn Randall (a LexCorp spokeswoman; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Adventures of Superman #433.

Synopsis:
Superman interrupts a mugging, but the night watchman refuses to press charges. The crooks get away with his id badge and keycard. Jose Delgado is given the keycard and uses it to break into a LexCorp lab where Project Synapse is being conducted with experiments on teen gang members.

Delgado, in the costumed guise of Gangbuster, then tracks down leads which take him to crime boss Jay Falk who is supplying the kids with weapons. With the help of Superman and Jerry White, Gangbuster apprehends Falk who is implicated in the gang activity. Luthor escapes the incident without public awareness of his involvement, but Superman sends him a message indicating that he knows Luthor was behind everything.