Adventure Comics #480

The cover by Carmine Infantino and Steve Mitchell crackles with rooftop action as a brown-and-gold-suited hero with wild blond hair squares off against an ornate yellow-and-blue armored villain wielding a staff — while inset panels below capture the very human cost of Chris's double life, with a classmate struggling to explain his absences to a frustrated teacher. The "More Heroes Created by You!" badge is a fun reminder that Dial "H" for Hero ran on reader-submitted characters, giving this April 1981 issue an especially collaborative spirit. "The Riddle of the Sphinx!" promises the kind of inventive superhero adventure that made this corner of DC's lineup genuinely distinctive.