The Legion of Super-Heroes #260

Dick Giordano's cover for Legion of Super-Heroes #260 drops readers right into the chaos of a circus gone terribly wrong, as several Legionnaires scramble to face the massive, razor-toothed Jovian Attack Squid lunging toward them from the right. Speech bubbles warn that someone among their small group is deliberately trying to get them all killed, giving this February 1980 issue an immediate whodunit tension layered on top of its creature-feature thrills. Gerry Conway, Joe Staton, and company promise a story — subtitled "Come to the Circus and Die!" — that mixes superhero action with genuine mystery, making this one hard to set down before the last page.