Superman #378

Superman faces a deviously tricky situation on this December 1982 cover, where the Man of Steel grapples mid-air with what appears to be a dissolving or duplicating Colonel Future — the cover copy taunting him with "You only think you've captured Colonel Future!" as one version of the villain blasts apart above while another streaks up from below in a burst of energy. Rich Buckler's pencils and Dick Giordano's inks give the scene a real kinetic charge, with Superman caught between two explosive bursts against a city skyline backdrop. Paul Kupperberg's "The Man Who Saved the Future!" promises a story as cleverly constructed as that mischievous cover hook.