Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #431
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1987
On Sale Date: May 19, 1987 Newsstand Date May 19, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Newsstand Date May 11, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #117

Shipping Date April 28, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #117

Newsstand Date May 11, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702, #704

Copyright Date April 28, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date April 28, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702, #704

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Andrew Helfer

Title: "They Call Him -- Doctor Stratos"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Erik J. Larsen
Inker: John R. Beatty
Inker: Dick Giordano
Inker: Karl Kesel
Inker: Robert Lewis
Inker: Jerry Ordway
Inker: P. Craig Russell
Inker: Robert Allen Smith
Inker: Robert Ian
Inker: Bill Wray
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 4 TPB (2005)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 2 HC (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #591; next appearance in Superman Annual #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #590; next appearance in Superman Annual #1)
• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #430; next appearance in Superman #10)

Villain(s)

• Doctor Constantine Stratos (no further appearances)
• The McGuffin Mob (no further appearances)
• Stratos's employees (Marianne, Hodor, Emil Markos, Melinda; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #65; next appearance in Adventures of Superman Annual #1)
• Nancy Reagan (next appearance in Millennium #3)
• George Bush (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #62; next appearance in Checkmate #18)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (last appearance in Justice League #3; next appearance in Suicide Squad #5)
• Eddie (a street vendor; no further appearances)
• Gopher (custodian of the Planet micorfilm library; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Doctor Stratos, a man who claims to be a god, is able to manipulate the weather. He causes a May snowstorm in Metropolis and other severe weather around the world. He then calls the President with an extortion demand.

Superman is called in to deal with Stratos. First he must deal with the weather conditions around the world. He stops a tidal wave in London, breaks up deep fog in Paris, then helps people deal with snowstorms in Egypt and Morocco.

Superman realizes that Stratos is trying to exhaust him. He deduces that the weather is being controlled from orbit and heads for a satellite. Stratos responds by using a particle beam. Superman traces the satellite back to Stratos's lair. The particle beam strikes Superman just as he confronts Stratos. The villain is struck by the beam and apparently killed. Superman then deals with the scientists and shuts down the satellite.

Stratos is then reborn and promises vengeance.