Action Comics #507

Action Comics #507 brings one of 1980's most genuinely gripping Superman covers, with pencils by Ross Andru and inks by Dick Giordano. Superman crouches over a conspicuously empty grave beside Ma Kent's headstone, cape billowing as he demands to know why his foster father's burial plot has vanished — while an elderly man in a purple suit looms behind him with a cane, declaring "I'm still alive, son… and standing right behind you!" The banner promises "The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent!" and the cover delivers exactly that sense of stunned disbelief, making this a deeply compelling entry in Superman's long history.