Action Comics #385

Action Comics #385 (On Sale: December 23, 1969) has a cover by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson.

This issue begins with Superman in "The Immortal Superman" by Cary Bates, Curt Swan and George Roussos.  When the president asks Superman not to fly through time for a few days so that the military can test a new weapon, he is called to the future and uses an old Legion time-bubble to do so, but a defect int he bubble causes Superman to age. After solving a crisis he finds that when he attempts to return to the present he is stopped by some sort of barrier and returns to the 1,020th century where he is given immunity to kryptonite, magic and Virus-X. Though now pretty much immortal, Superman is trapped in the future and this story is continued next issue.

The back-up Legion of Super-Heroes story, "The Fallen Starboy" is by E. Nelson Bridwell, Winslow Mortimer and Jack Abel. When a criminal gang is running rampant on his home-world of Xanthu, Starboy, along with Colossal Boy and Saturn Girl respond only to discover that the gang is from Naltor, Dream Girl's home planet and can foresee every trap the Legion sets for them.  One of the gang is the brother of the man Starboy killed and is out for revenge. He captures Starboy but he is rescued by his fellow Legionaries..  This story was reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 9 HC and is the first LSH story in years not written by the now departed Jim Shooter.

Edited by Mort Weisinger.