JLA #23

Against the curved arc of Earth seen from orbit, Superman streaks along a blazing yellow energy beam toward a colossal green reptilian creature whose amber eye dominates the lower half of the cover — while a tiny figure rides that same beam nearby, suggesting the League is facing a threat of genuinely planetary scale. Howard Porter and John Dell's cover art for this October 1998 issue makes the size contrast between hero and monster feel both thrilling and daunting. With Grant Morrison writing "Conquerors," this chapter of his celebrated JLA run promises the kind of big, bold ideas that defined the team's late-'90s resurgence.