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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Superman: Lost #4!Of all the amazing powers Superman has been blessed with, one is absolutely crucial to figuring out where he is at all times. As Clark recounts his adventures in space, he reveals the ability he relies on most during his interstellar travels.

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Superman has several incredible powers from flight, to laser vision and even freeze breath. But for all his strengths, none of them have helped him out much in his most recent dire adventure. After helping the Justice League stop a singularity at the bottom of the ocean, Superman was transported nearly 10 trillion kilometers away from Earth. He managed to get back within a day, but relative to him, the trip took two decades. In that time, Superman has seen new civilizations and fantastic new aliens such as space dolphins. But even for the Man of Steel, the trip was long, arduous and nearly too much even for his capabilities.

In Superman: Lost #4 by Christopher Priest and Carlo Pagulayan, Clark hit a snag in his travels across space. Rather than aimlessly wander through the universe, Superman has settled onto a planet he's named Kansas and built a small farm for himself. Clark reunites with Szhemi, an alien the hero met five years prior. Superman tells Szhemi that he spent several years trying to get back home, riding comets and using his super-hearing to try and navigate the cosmos. Clark reveals that rather than his incredibly enhanced vision, he relies on his hearing most to find his way across space, noting "space has a heartbeat". Unfortunately, he's simply too far from Earth to figure out where to go. Instead, he listened for the nearest planet, in this case, Kansas, and settled there.

Superman goes out into space a lot, and it's commonly assumed that it's not a big deal for him. But Superman: Lost establishes that traveling through space, even for the Man of Steel, is quite dangerous. While Clark has impressive sight thanks to his telescopic and X-ray vision, it doesn't exactly help him when he's peering out in the cold blackness of space. Super-hearing, however, can key the hero into familiar frequencies and pulsations throughout the cosmos. If it wasn't for his amazing hearing, Superman wouldn't be able to traverse the stars, greatly limiting his impact on the DC Universe.

As good a hero as Superman is on Earth, he's always willing to lend a hand wherever he can, even to other worlds. Though it's not routine, Clark has gone out to help other planets from forces they can't protect themselves from. But Superman would only take the risk of leaving Earth if he knew how to get home. Super-hearing is the only way someone like Clark knows how to navigate the long stretches of complete emptiness. Without such a skill, even Superman wouldn't take the risk of interstellar travel, meaning other planets in need of aid would be deprived of Clark's assistance. Readers can see just how important Clark's enhanced hearing is in Superman: Lost #4, on sale now.

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Without 1 Shocking Power, Superman Would Be Stranded on Earth - Screen Rant