Continuity
This special features the classic Earth-One Brainiac (or maybe his Earth-32 counterpart), which is probably a main reason for placing the tale outside regular Earth-One continuity. Brainiac had been revamped seven months prior, in Action Comics #544, and even before that he had been tied on various continuity concerns going back all the way to Action Comics #514, cover-dated December 1980. LuisDantas (talk) 16:29, September 16, 2017 (UTC)
- Checking - yes, it is. There are 12 (I think) issues created by DC for the German market, published first by Ehapa. Regular American comics didn't translate too well to European formats so they requested a larger paper size and story length. Bates and Kane did the bulk, if not all.
- About half of them were later republished in English in these three Specials (at original size, I think) and in two parts in Action Comics (at regular American size). The others were never translated. I have most of them in Dutch, some by Ehapa and the rest by Baldakijn. I don't have this one.
- These stories generally followed Earth-One - characters from Galaxy Communications and 344 Clinton Street appear - nothing to set them apart. This is probably just be a miscommunication between writers/editors as they were produced separately from the regular Superman group. --Tupka217 16:44, September 16, 2017 (UTC)
It was published in Brazil as well - as a matter of fact, it was the very first Superman history published by Abril. http://www.guiadosquadrinhos.com/edicao/super-homem-1-serie-n-1/sh00301/8194 LuisDantas (talk) 04:23, September 17, 2017 (UTC)