Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #440
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: May 1988
On Sale Date: January 26, 1988 Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: DC Releases, #48

Shipping Date January 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #135

Newsstand Date February 18, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #135

Copyright Date January 26, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "The Hurrieder I Go"
Pages: 21

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John L. Byrne
Plotter/Penciller: Jerry Ordway
Inker: Dennis Janke
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Anthony Tollin

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 8 TPB (2014)
Superman:The Man of Steel Vol. 4 HC (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman:The Earth Stealers #1; next appearance in Action Comics #600)

Supporting Character(s)

• Martha Kent (last appearance in World of Smallville #4; next appearance in Superman #20)
• Gangbuster (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #439; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #442)
• Emil Hamilton (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #425; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #442)
• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman:The Earth Stealers #1; next appearance in Action Comics #600)
• Jerry White (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #438; next appearance in World of Metropolis #1)
• Supergirl (last appearance in Superman #16; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #441)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Action Comics #599; next appearance in Action Comics #600)
• Morgan Edge (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #439; next appearance in Swamp Thing #72)
• An unnamed gunman (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Wonder Woman (last appearance in Wonder Woman #16; next appearance in Action Comics #600)
• Batman (last appearance in Martian Manhunter #4; next appearance in Justice League Annual #2)

Other Character(s)

• Pearl (last appearance in Superman #13; next appearance in Action Comics #600)
• A Superman robot (destroyed in this story; no further appearances)
• A truck driver (no further appearances)
• Two unnamed scientists (no further appearances)

Comments:
Superman and Batman learn each others' secret identities in this story.

This story continues in part in the first story of Action Comics #600.

Synopsis:
Superman prepares for his date with Wonder Woman. Before meeting her, he checks up on Emil Hamilton who has constructed another Superman robot. The robot fails testing, but Hamilton successfully demonstrates a personal force field that he has invented.

After leaving Hamilton, Superman visits Gotham City for a meeting with Batman. The Man of Steel gave Batman a scrapbook for him to investigate. Although the detective was unable to determine who the scrapbook belonged to, he is able to use the book to deduce Superman's secret identity. Superman is shaken by this, but he recovers enough to admit that he knows Batman's secret too. The two agree to keep the secret's safe.

Superman then heads for Smallville. He stops a gunman and a truck fire along the way. When he arrives in town, he gives the scrapbook to Martha Kent for safekeeping only to learn that she is the owner of the book. He wonders how it was stolen and who sent it to him.

Finally Superman arrives at his rendez-vous with Wonder Woman. Upon meeting they share a kiss.