Although Action Comics #1 launched in May 1938, DC Comics is celebrating 80 years of the Man of Tomorrow a little early with today's release of Action Comics #1ooo, a bumper collection of tales reminding us about why we love the last son of Krypton so much. But a future-looking tale in the issue adds a new mystery around Superman's origin.

In advance of his new turn bringing Superman into a whole new era, Brian Michael Bendis sat down at a panel at SXSW in Austin yesterday to talk about the joy and burden of Superman's revolutionary hope.

DC Comics' celebratory anthology for Action Comics' 1000th issue doesn't hit shelves until next month, but you can prepare yourself right now with one of the stories from the issue. And by prepare, I actually mean get punched right in the gut with some emotions.

A long-thought-lost Superman story, likely written by co-creator Jerry Siegel, is set to be published by DC Comics in celebration of its landmark Action Comics #1000. And this particular story has a very interesting past.

Earlier this year, DC's Rebirth initiative kicked off with a ton of mysteries, but one of the biggest ones that's remained unanswered so far has been just who the hell Mr Oz is, the cryptic, cosmic figure watching Superman from the shadows who has an intimate knowledge of the last son of Krypton. Today, we finally got an answer.

The ongoing saga of post-Rebirth Superman culminated this week in the final part of "Superman Reborn" in the pages of Action Comics. It didn't just forever solve the tale of two Clark Kents though -- it had some extremely big ramifications for the whole of the DC Universe.