Story: "Authorized" (22 Pages)

Credits: Joe Casey (plot, script); Derec Aucoin (pencils, inks); Tanya and Richard Horie (colors); Comicraft (letters); Eddie Berganza (edits)

Feature Character: Superman

Guest Star: 'Superman' (a character from the novel Champion of the Oppressed by Ben Conrad)

Villains: The Hollow Men (first appearance)

Guest Appearance: Major Victory II (first appearance)

Other Characters: Wallace (a man falsely accused of murder), Ben Conrad (first appearance), Sergreant Morton (of the U.S. army), Billy Ray Clampett (a vicious highway patrolman)

Synopsis:

A man who looks somewhat like Superman appears on the scene in Texas and begins to take the law into his own hands. Clark Kent deduces that this is actually a character from an unfinished novel from his old professor of journalism, Ben Conrad, who is forced to delete the manuscript before the new hero gets too far out of hand. However, unknown to either of them, the protagonists of his 1960 novel The Hollow Men seem to be active as well...