Action Comics #416

This September 1972 issue of Action Comics presents a striking moral dilemma right on the cover, penciled and inked by Nick Cardy: Superman reaches urgently through a collapsing, flame-engulfed structure toward a woman in a wheelchair, who recoils and pushes him away, shouting that she'd rather die than let him save her. The raw emotion and billowing smoke and fire make the scene feel genuinely tense, hinting at a complicated history between the two characters tied to the story title "Superman, You Scare Me to Death!" Inside, Cary Bates scripts and Curt Swan pencils the Man of Steel's adventure, with Murphy Anderson on inks — and as a bonus, Metamorpho also returns for his own tale.