And if you haven’t read it then I recommend giving it a go – it was the last comic that I picked up in issue form, after everything else had switched to TPB.

I think the reason “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow” didn’t impact as the ending of the Superman story is that DC (and even Alan Moore) gave fans every reason to ignore it, what with it being concurrent with Crisis on Infinite Earths. Comics fans were getting hyped up on the possibility of “cleaning up the continuity” just as this story hit. So this story, which made an effort to hit all the “campy” Silver Age beats and elements, practically begged to be swept under the rug along with everything else. This is assuming you care more about continuity than good stories, of course, which an awful lot of superhero fans do.

Trading places with Perry White seems to stand out as less obviously absurd than the others, but it’s totally jam-packed with potential (of course the Jimmy who has all these fantastic adventures would find it hellish to spend all day in an office, check over proofs, deal with ad department screw-ups, tell reporters that the paper hasn’t met Q1 revenue so there’ll be no cost-of-living raises this year). It’s sitcommy, but a lot of those Silver Age Superman comics ARE sitcoms, in their way.