Cover: Jerry Ordway
Superman #51
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A mustached man in formal attire dominates this striking 1991 cover, his large hands gripping a golden scepter topped with a crowned skull while he peers intently through a diamond-shaped crystal — within which Superman himself appears trapped and struggling. Jerry Ordway's cover art delivers a wonderfully unsettling sense of menace, framing the Man of Steel as small and vulnerable against this well-dressed mystery villain. "The Menace of the Mysterious Mr. Z!" promises exactly the kind of deliciously sinister intrigue that makes Superman's rogues' gallery so compelling.
writer, artist Jerry Ordway · inker Dennis Janke · colorist Glenn Whitmore · letterer John Costanza · cover Jerry Ordway
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writer, artist Jerry Ordway
inker Dennis Janke
colorist Glenn Whitmore
letterer John Costanza
cover pencils, inks Jerry Ordway
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