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This is an old Superman comic, published before the 90s. It might have been in the 60s, 70s or 80s. An old man in an isolated community tells stories about a fictional character he's made up, called "Superman". What he doesn't know, unlike almost everybody else, is that Superman actually exists, and that every story he tells is a real adventure that Superman actually has experienced. At the end, the old storyteller meets Superman who's right in the middle of an important mission (to stop a bomb, I seem to remember), and the storyteller has to come up with a story where Superman gets it done and saves everybody.