The Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #3

DC's 1984 oversized annual delivers a striking Giffen and Mahlstedt cover that captures a group of Legionnaires tumbling helplessly into a blazing, ray-streaked chasm — five colorfully costumed figures scattered across a vast golden void, their postures conveying urgency and peril on a grand scale. The extra page count of an annual format gives the creative team room to dig into a story titled "The Curse," suggesting something darker and more far-reaching than a typical monthly outing. With Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen writing and Curt Swan among the artists inside, this is 30th-century super-heroics firing on all cylinders.