The New Adventures of Superboy #9

The September 1980 cover by Ross Andru, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Dave Hunt delivers a genuinely unsettling image: Superboy dives headlong toward a glowing barrier while ghostly Phantom Zone villains — including a menacing bald figure and a woman in battle stance — loom around him, taunting that he's been cut off from his parents forever, as Ma and Pa Kent sit obliviously in their living room below. The cover's split between cozy domesticity and spectral threat gives the whole thing a real sense of dread, and the promise of "8 Extra Exciting Pages!" plus a special Superboy's Secret Diary backup — teased in a small vignette of Clark Kent at his desk — makes this issue feel like an especially generous package for fans of the Boy of Steel.