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Cover: José Luis García-López & Dick Giordano

Superman #321

Mar 1978 · DC · 0.35 USD
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“Too Strong to Survive!”

From DC's late Bronze Age comes this striking March 1978 issue, with cover art by José Luis García-López and Dick Giordano depicting a tormented Superman overwhelmed by a sensory onslaught — police cars, radios, telephones, soldiers, and machinery swirling around him as he cries out that he sees and hears everything on Earth all at once, driving him toward the edge of sanity. The cover's exclamation — "It's turning me into a SUPERMANIAC!" — gives the story title "Too Strong to Survive!" an unsettling, visceral charge. It's a compelling premise that turns Superman's greatest gifts against him, making this one of those 1978 issues that reminds you how effectively DC could make its most powerful hero feel genuinely vulnerable.

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writer Martin Pasko · artist Curt Swan · inker Frank Chiaramonte · colorist Jerry Serpe · letterer Milt Snapinn · cover José Luis García-López, Dick Giordano

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artist Curt Swan
colorist Jerry Serpe
letterer Milt Snapinn
cover inks Dick Giordano

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Superman begins to deal with the massive increase in his superpowers that is being caused by the Parasite.

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