DC Comics Presents #23

The pairing of Superman and Doctor Fate makes for an irresistible team-up, and this 1980 issue of DC Comics Presents sells that promise with a striking cover by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano. Doctor Fate looms large in the foreground, hands outstretched, while a mystic vision reveals Superman bound in heavy green chains — a bearded, robed figure standing imperiously behind him — as Fate warns that the Man of Steel will be "cursed for all eternity" unless the evil spell of a bewitched buccaneer can be broken. "The Curse Out of Time!" brings together raw Kryptonian power and ancient sorcery in exactly the kind of cross-genre collision that made this anthology series such a rewarding read.