Comic Title: Superman #28
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: February 1989
On Sale Date: December 20, 1988 Shipping Date December 20, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #11

Shipping Date December 22, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #155

Direct Market Date December 22, 1988
Source: Comic Shop News, #75, #76

Copyright Date December 20, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

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

Title: "Superman in Exile"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Superman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Roger Stern
Penciller: Kerry Gammill
Inker: Brett Breeding
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Glenn Whitmore

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

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)

Supporting Character(s)

• Perry White (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Superman #29)
• Catherine Grant (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #450; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #452)

Villain(s)

• Morgan Edge (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #450; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Invasion #3; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Brainiac (last appearance in Superman #27; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Milton Fine (last appearance in Superman #27; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Three Intergang assassins (Gillespie named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Gretchen Kelley (last appearance in Superman #19; next appearance in Superman #31)
• Amanda McCoy (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #449; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• Matthew Stockton (full name revealed; last appearance in Adventures of Superman #450; no further appearances)
• A race of aliens (no further appearances)
• Mrs. Turk (last appearance in Adventures of Superman #446; next appearance in Adventures of Superman #451)
• John (a Daily Planet employee; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Jonathan Kent (in flashback to Clark's youth)
• Martha Kent (in flashback to Clark's youth)
• Lois Lane (in flashback)
• General Zod (in flashback)
• Quex-Ul (in flashback)
• Zaora (in flashback)
• Guardian (in flashback)

Synopsis:
Superman leaves Earth to begin a self-imposed exile. Using a teleporter acquired from the Omega Men, he quickly travels across vast reaches of space. He finds an uninhabited world, nearly gets pulled into a sun, and rescues an alien space plane in an event eerily similar to his first public appearance in Metropolis. However, Superman does not want to become a hero to another race of people, so he leaves that world behind.

Back on Earth, Perry White receives the first installment of Clark Kent's series on Intergang. Perry believes Clark has gone into hiding and is sending the stories to him in the mail. When the story is published, Morgan Edge orders Kent assassinated. Meanwhile, Brainiac informs Lex Luthor that he can no longer sense Superman.

Elsewhere, Amanda McCoy is continuing her investigation of Clark Kent whom she believes is really Superman. Matthew Stockton, the investigator she hired, breaks into Clark's apartment. At the same time, Edge's Intergang assassins arrive. They mistake Stockton for Kent and kill him.