Legion of Super-Heroes #61

Part 2 of the four-part "Magic Wars" saga, this June 1989 issue arrives with a cover by Steve Lightle that makes an immediate visual statement: a swarm of golden dragons wheel and dive around crumbling stone architecture, fire streaking across a sky already stained with smoke, while a lone spacecraft arcs in from the left — science and magic in vivid, uneasy collision. Levitz and Giffen are at the helm for "Will Magic or Science Prevail?", a question Lightle's cover poses with striking urgency. If you're following the Legion through one of their most fantastical late-'80s storylines, this is exactly the kind of installment you don't want to skip.