Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #61

Three of the Turtles converge over a battered, bloodied figure on the ground in A. C. Farley's intense cover for this penultimate chapter of Mirage's ambitious thirteen-part "City at War" saga. The urgency radiating from their battle-ready stances makes it clear the tension has been building toward something significant, and issue #61 arrives right at the edge of that breaking point. Written by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Jim Lawson — with art by Lawson — this July 1993 installment is a compelling reason to see the sprawling conflict through to its conclusion.