Superman #204

A striking 1968 cover by Neal Adams sets an ominous tone: Superman lies collapsed and helpless on the ground, while a massive flaming "LL" looms above him, its fiery letters casting a dire shadow over the Man of Steel. The bold cover question — "Why do these initials mean DEATH for the Man of Steel?" — frames a genuinely compelling mystery that Cary Bates scripts with Ross Andru and Mike Esposito bringing the interior art to life. It's the kind of cover that stops you cold in the spinner rack and demands you find out what those two letters could possibly do to the mightiest hero in comics.