The Superman Family #194

This April 1979 dollar comic packs a remarkable amount of chaos into a single cover: Superman takes a staggering blow at center stage while an army of identical green-uniformed clones closes in from all sides, with Batman and Green Arrow visible at his feet and a flying Supergirl and Superboy swooping in from above. Ross Andru's pencils and Dick Giordano's inks give the whole scene a kinetic, crowded energy that makes the cover's promise of a "double-length super-star epic" feel entirely earned. At 68 ad-free pages featuring Superboy, Supergirl, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Nightwing, and Flamebird, this is one of DC's most generously packed anthology issues of the era.