Superman ends S&tA donning his “classic” costume but with the gray temples. In the upcoming Batman/Superman & the Authority Superman has the gray temples and the classic suit on. That story takes place inbetween the time skip within the last issue of Action between Clark talking to Bruce and Clark leaving Earth. So the timeline goes something like this:
Action -> Superman & the Authority -> Action -> Batman/Superman & The Authority -> Next issue of Action
Guessing B/S&tA will explain why Clark isn’t showing gray temples lol.
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Here's hoping the answer is super-hair dye
At this point I think that people are trying to make this sound confusing when this is about as confusing as any two Batman monthlies fitting in same timeline.
“Look, you can’t put the Superman #77s with the #200s. They haven’t even discovered Red Kryptonite yet. And you can’t put the #98s with the #300s, Lori Lemaris hasn’t even been introduced.” — Sam
“Where the hell are you from? Krypton?” — Edgar Frog
Yeah, that's true. It's pretty obvious that Superman & the Authority wasn't meant to be this continuity when originally conceived. It does have a couple explanations in it: "I was lost in time" to explain Kennedy, "I put together this team to go to Warworld" to place it in a timeline with Action Comics (it happens in between Clark and Jon taking the Phaelosians to the Bermuda Fortress in AC 1031 and the JL kicking out Superman in 1035, though also presumably before the Warzoons attack the Bermuda Fortress in 1033), with an extra reference to Lois investigating Kandor to tie it even further with Action Comics. But this is... minutiae, so I'm not surprised people miss it and wonder where does it fit, specially because the suit and the hair throw people off. Suit can be handwaved away as just Superman not feeling like using his old suit (even if that's a very unsatisfactory answer), hair... will presumably have to wait until the Batman/Superman & the Authority one-shot. I joked before, but I wouldn't actually mind the "Clark's just dyeing his hair to be full black" explanation.
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