1st Issue Special #12

DC's 1st Issue Special #12 (March 1976) spotlights Starman, a red-haired figure in a white and purple costume soaring high above a city skyline, fist raised and crackling with energy as a sleek futuristic aircraft looms behind him against a blazing orange sky. The cover by Joe Kubert poses the question that drives the whole issue: "Has he come to save the Earth — or destroy it?" — an irresistible hook that sets up Gerry Conway and Mike Vosburg's story with exactly the right amount of cosmic uncertainty.