Superman #361

Superman hurls Captain Strong — the sailor-suited Mighty Mariner — like a living projectile straight at a snarling purple Kryptonian beast, declaring there's "only one way to beat that Kryptonian beast… by using you as a human missile!" Ross Andru and Dick Giordano's cover crackles with kinetic energy, capturing an unlikely team-up that promises plenty of high-stakes action in the story inside. An intriguing corner box teaser also asks what the mystery identity of Superman-II will be in the year 2020 — a fun bonus hook that makes this 1981 issue feel genuinely ambitious in scope.