Paneling: Action Comics #500

As I’ve noted in the past, memory is a tricky thing. For example, there’s a panel that’s lived in my head for decades. To the extent I can with my largely aphantasic mind, I’ve pictured it a certain way, even as I couldn’t recall the exact comic or context in which it appeared. I had my suspicions about the comic, but rather than just digging the comic out of its box and making sure, I asked about it on Bluesky – without naming the comic I thought it was from – and received a response that validated my suspicion. So, as I suspected, it was… Action Comics vol. 1 #500 …and it was much easier to get at than I initially thought, though I did first try to find it on DC Universe Infinite because I was at my computer and looking there didn’t involve getting up off my lazy ass and going upstairs. Alas, the very incomplete library of comics at the site is, well, incomplete when it comes to this issue. In any case, I got my copy out and looked for the panel and found it. Sort of. You see, the…