DC Comics Presents #36

The fiery yellow-and-red cover of this 1981 team-up issue says it all: Superman and a blue-suited, gravity-rod-wielding Starman charge forward against the looming, rage-filled visage of Mongul the Merciless dominating the background. Billed as "a full-length novel" promising "a universe torn asunder," this is the kind of sweeping cosmic pairing that the DC Comics Presents format does best. Jim Starlin both writes and illustrates, bringing his distinctive kinetic energy to every figure on the cover.