The New Adventures of Superboy #25

Kurt Schaffenberger's cover for this 1982 second-anniversary issue delivers a genuinely arresting scene: Superboy recoils in shock after accidentally knocking the head clean off a mysterious long-haired figure who ominously declares his non-human nature — and promises death as the penalty for that discovery. The headless antagonist and a wide-eyed Boy of Steel make for a memorable visual hook that sets up the 27-page blockbuster story, "The Man Who Kidnapped Nature!