Superman #319

Superman streaks into action on this striking 1978 DC cover by Rich Buckler and Bob Oksner, his heat vision blazing as a massive, dripping swamp creature hurls a Yellow Cab — two terrified passengers still clinging to it — high above a city street. The cover's teasing headline, "Who — or What — is the Mystery Monster Battling Superman?", pairs perfectly with the story inside: "How to Make a Marshland Monster!" Written by Martin Pasko with interior art by Curt Swan, this issue promises a genuinely menacing creature feature wrapped in the kind of bold, dynamic superhero energy that made late-'70s DC so much fun.