Legion of Super-Heroes #82

A Legion member's expression of wide-eyed panic takes center stage on this July 1996 issue, as a crackling surge of violet and green energy tears right through his chest — a cover image from penciller Alan Davis and inker Mark Farmer that carries real urgency without resorting to melodrama. The red-and-green costumed hero, Legion belt buckle gleaming, looks every bit as alarmed as readers will feel flipping to "Lifestyles of the Dead," written by Tom Peyer and Tom McCraw with interior art by Lee Moder and Ron Boyd. It's a vivid, unsettling snapshot of a hero in crisis that makes issue #82 hard to pass by on the shelf.