We all remember our first issue of Superman. This was mine. An average story and issue. It introduced us to the secret Checkmate organization. The only time it was on the hot list was around 15 years ago when it played such a large roll in the Final Crisis countdown. Since then, it's just one of those issues, its only real value is sentimentally. But who can say they were disappointed in the issue that began decades of fandom? Like I said, it was average, but to me, a classic as well. And though there's no atomic explosion in the story like the cover, and it's your average late '80s Superman story I'll always remember it as my first of now over 1,000 Superman books.