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Yeah, death by boredom.

I'd guess from the cover it's 96 spectacular pages of muscular men getting
undressed.

Hmm... Feeling strange urge... to go get this.

Here's an example of why nothing Superman could do would free him of accusations that he's a US government agent:

A few years back, two rather ineffectual Norwegian security contractors, French and Moland, who were "sightseeing" in the Congo got arrested. They had hired a car with a driver to get them through a jungle area and one of two possible scenarios happened:
1) In the middle of the jungle, they decided to attack and kill the driver and his two friends who were also in the car. They killed the driver by getting out of the car and shooting him with a rifle through the windshield. Then they attacked the two others by hand but let them live as they fled. The rifle was never found and never linked to them, and they surrendered other weapons they had hid while fleeing.
2) While driving through the jungle, the driver stopped and Franch and Moland were told to get out while the driver was fixing something. Suddenly someone shoots at them from the jungle, the driver gets killed, French and Moland get the driver's body out of the car and try to drive away from whoever's shooting at them.

During the trial, these two guys were accused of being spies for the Norwegian government, and the Norwegian government was asked (initially) to pay 500 billion US dollars in reparations to the families of those they had hurt.

And despite there being no murder weapon, no credible motive and the two witnesses having a stake in whatever reparations would be awarded, they got sentenced to death (commuted to life, apparently).

The point being - with no real evidence these two guys were accused of being master spies, presumably plotting some sort of Norwegian backed coup of the Congo, and Norway was asked to pay 500 billion dollars in reparations.

Trust me: if someone wants to paint Superman as an agent of the US, no amount of (fake!) renunciation of citizenship would be sufficient.

Not to mention that he would first have to declare under what name he had US citizenship so that people could check and see if he actually renounced it in a legally binding way.

Comparing Action #900 to Action #500 I must say the cover of #500 didn't depress me and made me actually want to buy the comic book.

"The big media machine is talking about our favorite super heroes in spandex. You know what that means, lots of misconceptions and reactionary yellow journalism…"

Watch out for the irony! Might cut yourself!

A lot changed in just ten years!

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Ten years? In the original SUPERMAN VS THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, our favorite Kryptonian was described as fighting for "Truth, Justice and the TERRAN Way!" That was thirty-five years ago!