Green Lantern #6

Three Green Lanterns — one straining against a massive, tentacled device crackling with green energy at the center, flanked by two others standing grimly at his sides — face what the title bluntly calls "Captives of the Mad God!" against a backdrop of ruins and ominous pink smoke. A fourth Lantern streaks in from the upper left, suggesting the cavalry may be on its way, while a mysterious blue-clad figure stands in the foreground with back turned. Pat Broderick and Mark A. Nelson's cover composition sells the scale of the threat beautifully, and with Gerard Jones at the helm for this November 1990 issue, fans of the Corps were getting exactly the kind of cosmic peril they came for.