Action Comics #583
DC Comics · 1986 · Very Fine (VF) · Alan Moore · Curt Swan
🔑 KEY ISSUE: Alan Moore's legendary 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?' conclusion, the final Silver Age Superman story, widely regarded as one of the greatest Superman stories ever written
Action Comics #583 is the concluding chapter of Alan Moore's legendary two-part story 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?', which began in Superman #423 the same month. Together these two issues serve as the definitive final tale of the Silver Age Superman, a valediction to decades of classic continuity written before John Byrne's Man of Steel reboot swept everything away. This issue sees Superman face his greatest enemies in a last stand at the Fortress of Solitude, with an emotional farewell from the entire cast of his supporting world gathered on that iconic cover.
Alan Moore was at the absolute peak of his powers in 1986, simultaneously crafting Watchmen and writing this heartfelt Superman swan song. Penciller Curt Swan, the definitive Superman artist of the Silver Age, inked here by Kurt Schaffenberger, lends the story an extra emotional weight as the man who drew Superman for three decades helps send him off in style. The 'Who Watches the Watchmen?' house ad on the back cover makes this a genuine time-capsule artefact from one of comics' most transformative years.
- ⭐ This issue concludes 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?', Alan Moore's two-part farewell to Silver Age Superman continuity, co-published alongside Superman #423 in September 1986.
- ⭐ Curt Swan pencilled this issue with Kurt Schaffenberger on inks, reuniting two of the most celebrated Superman artists of the Silver Age for the character's pre-Crisis send-off.
- ⭐ The 'Who Watches the Watchmen?' house ad on this issue's back cover places it right at the heart of DC's 1986 revolution, the same month Watchmen was launching and the Crisis on Infinite Earths was wrapping up.
Condition: The copy presents in Very Fine condition with bright, vivid colours, a well-centred cover and a flat spine showing only minimal wear consistent with careful storage. Staples are secure and the book appears to have been bagged and boarded.
For any serious DC or Superman collector this is an essential issue: a genuine key that sits alongside Watchmen as proof of what Moore could do with superhero mythology, and one of the most emotionally resonant single issues DC ever published.
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