L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 #4

L.E.G.I.O.N. '89 #4 delivers one of the more memorably cheeky covers of 1989, with a snarling, red-eyed villain pressing a blaster directly at the reader while holding a mysterious green-clawed figure hostage — and daring you, via speech bubble, to "buy this book or I'll shoot this… uh… GUY?" It's a genuinely funny, fourth-wall-nudging moment brought to life by the pencils of Kevin Maguire and inks of Al Gordon. Inside, writers Keith Giffen and Alan Grant, with art by Barry Kitson, keep the young DC series humming along under the intriguing chapter title "The Godfather Pulls the Strings.