Later, Superman and Lois Lane share a meal on the Eiffel Tower, pointing out that he hates not spending enough time with the perfect woman.

The next day, Perry White meets with Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen; after starting dramatic, assigns to the team their next story: the new Metropolis casino from Tony Gallo that might be an illegal front.

Clark, listening, is happy and goes on patrol that night before seeing Lois, where he finds a village in danger from a volcano.

Lois and Superman talk at her apartment, where she reveals that she met a perfect man but, because he is committed to the world, does not think a relationship could work and thus leaves him.

Ace, the android member of the Royal Flush Gang, meets with Lex Luthor to discuss the fight; the point of the attack was to see what could harm Superman.

Luthor gets an idea when he hears Superman caring for the people around him and tells the android and the Gang to leave Metropolis.

Just as Gallo stands naked toward the green glow from the rock, Superman begins to fall, losing his ability to fly, into the crater made from the explosion.

Lex finds out that Gallo has a rock of alien origin inside his building just as Superman goes back to Smallville to meet with his parents.

Inside, Superman falls in pain and the rock takes an anthropomorphic form, just as Luthor arrives and insists on keeping the door opened.

[4] With Superman: Secret Origin by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, it can be assumed that this storyline is not in continuity anymore, but that notion can neither be confirmed nor denied as of 2010.