| Issue | #847 |
| Published | April 2007 |
| Cover Price | 2.99 USD; 3.65 CAD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | Matt Idelson; Nachie Castro (associate) |
| Notes | This issue went on sale 2007-03-28 (four weeks late from the original shipping date) and with different content than solicited (the solicited content ended up in issue 851). |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Renato Guedes (signed) |
| Inks | Renato Guedes (signed) |
| Colors | Renato Guedes |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | This issue went on sale 2007-03-28 (four weeks late from the original shipping date) and with different content than solicited (the solicited content ended up in issue 851). |
| Reprinted | in Superman: The Third Kryptonian (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([October] 2008) [minus all text and the UPC]. |
| Characters | Superman (flashback); Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Sun-Eater (flashback); Sunstone crystal; Fortress of Solitude |
| Synopsis | Jonathan Kent is up in the middle of the night, trying to make coffee, even though he's not supposed to be having caffeine. Martha catches him, and together they worry about Clark, who has gone missing in the Last Son storyline. Jonathan remembers back to a time that he and Clark snuck away, and went to the fortress. Superman made a spaceship, and they took off to do some sightseeing. They received a distress signal; a star system was being threatened by a Sun-Eater. Superman found an alien fighter, trying to take a bomb to the Sun-Eater, but it got disabled. He took the bomb, and despite being bombarded with red sun radiation, carried it into the Sun-Eater, and detonated it. Exhausted, Superman couldn't out fly the explosion, but Jonathan caught up to him in the spaceship, and they escaped. They then returned to Earth, caught some fish as a cover story, and returned home. Jonathan tells Martha that they must never underestimate their son, no matter what the odds, and they go back to bed. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Dwayne McDuffie |
| Pencils | Renato Guedes |
| Inks | Renato Guedes |
| Colors | Renato Guedes |
| Letters | Travis Lanham |
| Reprinted | in Superman: The Third Kryptonian (DC, 2008 series) #[nn] ([October] 2008) [minus the credits, and with the title moved from page 6 to page 1]. |
| Characters | Rip Hunter |
| Script | Bob Wayne |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Bob discusses several emails and letters that he has received. Ads for Action Comics #848, 52 #47, Catwoman #65, and Green Lantern #18. Appears on page 34 in this issue. |
| Notes | House ads for: Countdown (Jimmy Olsen Must Die!), Countdown (The Search for Ray Palmer), Countdown (The Seduction of the Innocent), Countdown (Villains Defiant), Countdown (Unto Man Shall Come... A Great Disaster), Amazons Attack, All Star Superman HC 1, and World War III. Appear in various places in the issue. |
| Notes | Total of 4 one-page ads for: got milk? with Vince Carter (milk), Lunar Knights (video game, Konami), The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, and abovetheinfluence (Partnership for a Drug-Free America). Appear in various places in the issue. |