Superman: The Man of Steel #13

Superman is pinned atop a massive, hurtling mechanical object — some kind of enormous technological pod or weapon — blazing through a star-filled space backdrop in a burst of explosive energy, and the cover teases that Cerberus finally blows his stack. Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke deliver a kinetic, forceful image that makes it hard to look away, with the Man of Steel clearly outmatched in terms of sheer momentum. Louise Simonson's "Brain Trust" story awaits inside, and this July 1992 issue promises the kind of big, cosmic-scale Superman action that defined the era.