Action Comics #482

From the cover's dramatic point-of-view angle, a massive pair of fists — Amazo's — unleash crackling shock-waves directly at the Superman-emblazoned Supermobile, while a clearly panicked Superman and Lois Lane struggle inside the out-of-control craft high above a city skyline. The cover dialogue spells out the stakes with real urgency: Superman is powerless outside the Supermobile, and Amazo knows it — making this 1978 issue a wonderfully tense confrontation between DC's Man of Steel and one of his most formidable android adversaries. José Luis García-López's cover composition pulls readers right into the action with that bold villain's-eye perspective, making it impossible not to want to flip to the first page.