Legion of Super-Heroes #17

The promise of finality hangs over Legion of Super-Heroes #17 (April 1991), as the blood-red words "The Last Battle" are scrawled across a cover depicting crumbling, debris-strewn ruins — a lone figure with flowing pink hair and a white costume standing amid the wreckage, small against the scale of the destruction surrounding her. Keith Giffen's pencils and Al Gordon's inks render the scene with a moody, atmospheric cool that makes the isolation feel genuinely weighty. With T&M Bierbaum scripting alongside Giffen and interior art from Brandon Peterson and Carlos Garzón, this is the kind of issue that earns its dramatic title.