Adventure Comics #485

DC's long-running Adventure Comics pivots to the reader-driven Dial "H" for Hero format with this September 1981 issue, and George Pérez's cover delivers a wonderfully chaotic clash to match. A squad of colorful heroes — including a white-haired energy blaster, a feral blue beast-man, an acrobatic dark-clad fighter, and several others locked in the fray — battles the villainous Evil Eight across a sprawling scene crackling with explosions and a brilliant starburst of power. A shadowy figure looms in the background promising to become "Master of the World," making it clear the stakes on this cover are anything but small.