1982 was an amazeballs years for movies. (Don’t believe me, just go look up the films that were released that year. We haven’t had another year of films like that since!)
And it was also a great year for comics.
The Legion of Super-Heroes #290-#294 had writer Paul Levitz, illustrator Keith Giffen, and inker Larry Mahlstedt dropping a major bomb on the 30th century DCU with The Great Darkness Saga.
Darkseid, more or less gone from the DCU for 1000 years (or so) manifests in the 30th century.
Such bad craziness ensures.
Darkseid mentally enslaves the citizens of Daxam, a planet unlike Krypton, in which the populace gains Superman-level powers if exposed to the light of a yellow sun.
3 Billion Superman-level threats now abound as Jack Kirby’s creation attempts to conquer the universe.
Really… it was something else during an era of some stagnation in DC comics.
It is so hilarious to think how that in the early 1980s, both The Legion of Super-Heroes AND The New Teen Titans were 2 of their best selling books, going so far as to get released in the more expensive (and much nicer) Baxter formats.
The Legion has never ever had such a peak again.