Story: "Personal Best" (22 Pages)

Credits: Marv Wolfman (plot, script); Jerry Ordway (pencils, inks); John Costanza (letters); Tom Ziuko (colors); Andrew Helfer and Michael Carlin (edits)

Feature Character: Superman (last in Action Comics #587; next in Superman Vol. 2 #5; also in a television broadcast that takes place in between issue #427 and Action Comics #587)

Supporting Characters: Perry White, Cat Grant (both last in issue #424; both next in Superman Vol. 2 #5); Alice White (Perry White's wife; first post-revamp appearance; last in flashback in World of Metropolis #2; next in issue #434), Jerry White (first appearance; the son of Perry and Alice White), José Delgado (first appearance; both next in issue #432); Bibbo Bibbowski (first appearance; a former boxing champion; next in issue #447)

Villains: Jay Falk (a mobster), Antonio Corsetti (one of Jay Falk's hitmen), Louis Lyppe (one of Jay Falk's men; first appearance of all three); Eddie (first appearance; the leader of the street gang, the Cobras); President Marlo (in a television broadcast following the previous issue; next in Suicide Squad Vol. 1 #1)

Other Characters: Judy Groffmann, Dan (first appearance of both; two TV reporters); Josef, Andrew (first appearance of both; two of Jay Falk's butlers); Senator Stanton (first appearance)