Comic Title: Adventures of Superman #453
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1989
On Sale Date: February 28, 1989 Shipping Date February 28, 1989
Source: Direct Currents, #13

Shipping Date March 2, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #160

Shipping Date March 2, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #2

Copyright Date February 28, 1989
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1989

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

Title: "Apparitions"
Pages: 14

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer/Artist: Jerry Ordway
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

Reprinted In:
Superman:Exile TPB (1998)
Superman:The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #30; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #454)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jonathan Kent (last appearance in Superman #30; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #454)
• Martha Kent (last appearance in Superman #30; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #454)
• Matrix (last appearance in Superman #30; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #454)
• Emil Hamilton (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #451; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #453)
• Gangbuster (in his new armor; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #451; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #456)
• Kitty Faulkner (last appearance in Starman #7; next appearance in Starman #13)

Other Character(s)

• Two alien scavengers (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Lex Luthor (in Superman's hallucination)
• Brainiac (in Superman's hallucination)
• General Zod (from the Pocket Universe; in Superman's hallucination)
• Quex-Ul (from the Pocket Universe; in Superman's hallucination)
• Zaora (from the Pocket Universe; in Superman's hallucination)

Synopsis:
Superman's breathing apparatus has been damaged. The oxygen deprecation causes him to hallucinate. He battles the Phantom Zone criminals and images of himself. In reality he is drifting through space. His body is found by two scavengers who intend to auction off their discovery.

Back on Earth, Professor Hamilton builds new armor for Jose Delgado.