The Transformers #44

Marvel's The Transformers #44 from September 1988 promises wild, offbeat adventure with its story "The Cosmic Carnival" — and the cover by Frank Springer and Dave Hunt delivers a vivid taste of the chaos ahead. A massive green dragon-like creature lunges ferociously at a large blue and red Transformer in truck form, while a red vehicle explodes in the foreground, a blue Transformer on a motorcycle races nearby, and a fiery figure looms in the background. It's a genuinely energetic image that suggests the Autobots have stumbled into something far stranger than your average battlefield.