Enough of this! You have sent your filth across the world... Destroying forests and streams as though they were the vermin-- So that a tree must try to grow while breathing acid! Let there be an end to it! Now! 
- — Valdemar
Superman #394 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 1) with a cover date of April, 1984.
Synopsis for "The Man Who Would Be President!"
Superman and Valdemar clean up some industrial polluters, political humorist Bucky Berns finds that he can predict future events in his column, and Superman endorses Berns for president.
Appearing in "The Man Who Would Be President!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Perry White
- Alice White
- Lois Lane
- Lana Lang (On a TV or computer screen)
- Valdemar the Viking
- Mrs. Goldstein (Final appearance)
Antagonists:
- Communist Party
- Compatriots (First appearance; unnamed)
Other Characters:
- United States Government (In a photograph only)
- Metropolis Fire Department
- Citizens of Metropolis (Unnamed)
- Mom (Unnamed)
- Billy
- Bucky Berns (First appearance)
- Daily Planet Employees (Unnamed)
- Farmers (Unnamed)
- Skagerrak (Final appearance)
- Vikings (Mentioned only)
- Metropolis Press Club
- Walter
- Judge Medowar (Phone call only)
- Pulsifer Paper Company Plant Manager (Unnamed)
- Batchelder Bottling Company
- Two Security Guards (Unnamed)
- Mr. Batchelder (Mentioned only)
- Two Custer Point Employees (Unnamed)
Locations:
- Space
- Earth
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Unnamed)
- United States of America
- Washington, D.C.
- Capitol Building (In a photograph only)
- United States Senate Chamber (In a photograph only)
- White House (Mentioned only)
- Capitol Building (In a photograph only)
- Metropolis
- Restaurant (Unnamed)
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Metropolis Waterfront
- Paper Mill (Unnamed)
- 344 Clinton Street
- Clark Kent's Apartment
- Whites' Residence
- Pulsifer Paper Company (Destroyed)
- Batchelder Bottling Company (Destroyed)
- Custer Point Power Plant (Destroyed)
- Control Room
- Maine
- Washington, D.C.
- Earth
Items:
- Daily Planet newspaper
- Valdemar's Flaming Sword
- Compatriots' Satellite (In a photograph only)
- Actuality Device
- Mort Weisinger Bust
- Radioactive Core (Destroyed)
- Plutonium (Destroyed)
Vehicles:
Concepts:
Notes
- Perry White said his wife Alice is 63 years old.
Trivia
- Bucky Berns is the Earth-One version of the humorist columnist for the Washington Post Art Buchwald.
See Also