Legion of Super-Heroes #28

Steve Lightle's striking cover for this November 1986 issue commands attention immediately — a cosmos-suited figure dominates the composition, arms outstretched and crying out in anguish amid a storm of debris, while a winged female Legionnaire soars in the background and another hero rushes forward. In the foreground, an unconscious or fallen figure lies at the center of the chaos, Legion I.D. card slipping from their grasp — a quietly haunting detail that ties directly to the story's title, "The Lost Hero." With Paul Levitz writing and Greg LaRocque on interior art, this is the kind of character-driven, visually ambitious Legion storytelling that made the mid-1980s run so memorable.