Legion of Super-Heroes #42

This issue of Legion of Super-Heroes ties into DC's 1988 Millennium crossover event (Week 2), and Steve Lightle's cover immediately draws you in with a striking visual puzzle: a woman named Laurel is shown in a dramatic split composition — half human face, half exposed robotic machinery — while a group of Legionnaires including a figure in a red-and-yellow star-emblazoned costume look on with curiosity. The speech bubble asking "Well, Laurel — are you finally going to tell us your secret?" makes the tension palpable without giving a single thing away. Paul Levitz, Greg LaRocque, and Mike DeCarlo deliver what promises to be a charged chapter in one of the 30th century's most enduring super-team sagas.