"Humane alternative to capital punishment, or a dimension without hope! Long the repository of Krypton's most incorrigible criminals, the Phantom Zone was left abandoned for countless years after the destruction of Superman's home planet. Now, however, the release of a single inmate from the Zone will trigger the greatest prison break the galaxy has ever seen--and spell doom for everyone on Earth! Only the Man of Steel can hope to stop the onslaught of Krypton's most powerful evildoers. But while Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League strain to hold back the rising tide of super-mayhem, Superman must make a far more dangerous journey to save his adopted world by escaping the inescapable Phantom Zone and cheating Death itself!" --p.[4] of cover.