Justice League of America #134

Against a vast, star-scattered cosmos, a pair of enormous stone hands clutch and pin several of DC's finest — Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and Supergirl among them — while the red-skinned villain Despero stands defiantly at the center of it all, making clear who is pulling the strings. Ernie Chan's cover art sells the threat with real force, framing "The World's Greatest Super-Heroes" as genuinely outmatched in this September 1976 clash titled "Battle at the Edge of Forever!" If you love a JLA lineup under serious cosmic pressure, issue #134 delivers that premise right on its cover.