Legion of Super-Heroes #23 – “Back Home in Hell” – Paul Levitz/Steve Lightle, Greg LaRocque/Mike DeCarlo
This one starts with alarms going off in Legion Headquarters, bringing a bunch of Legionnaires running to Brainiac 5’s lab. Turns out it’s just Mon-El, freaking out and smashing up the place. Lately Mon-El has been developing an immunity to the serum he’s been taking for years to keep him from dying of lead poisoning (Daxamites being especially sensitive to lead). Now the serum has completely worn off and Mon-El is dying. His only option is to go back to the Phantom Zone (where he was confined for 1000 years) while Brainy tries to find a solution. But Mon-El would rather die than go back to the Zone, so he takes off. Dawnstar chases him
and he’s so weak from the effects of the serum wearing off that he can’t even get through the polymer shield around Earth. On Rimbor, Shrinking Violet and Lightning Lass are trying to track down Persuader, who escaped prison a couple issues ago. They intimidate a bar full of scumbags into admitting that Persuader met a lowlife named Javors, who mentioned something about the word “five”. On Earth, Mon-El has been projected into the Phantom Zone, but he refuses to stay in one place so Brainy can communicate with him. Mon-El says he’d prefer death to exile and disappears deep into the Zone where Brainy can’t track him. At the Time Institute, Cosmic Boy and Night Girl talk 
Circadia Senius into lending them a Time Bubble for a vacation into the 20th Century (which I think leads into the Cosmic Boy mini-series that came out around this time). As soon as they leave, Shadow Lass, Dawnstar, and Element Lad show up to ask Circadia for the use of a Time Bubble to get them to Superboy’s time so they can recruit him to help save Mon-El. Circadia has one Time Bubble left, but warns about time storms making chronal travel difficult (probably a side-effect of the Crisis). The Legionnaires are aware of the time storms (that’s why they can’t just contact Superboy), but have to risk it for Mon-El’s sake. At Legion headquarters, Tellus and Phanton Girl head into the
Phantom Zone to find Mon-El and bring him back to Brainy’s portal so he’ll be close when Brainy tries his cure. After a rough ride, the trio of Legionnaires lands in Superboy’s era and decides they’d better not let anyone see them. On the way back from Rimbor, Violet and Lightning Lass discuss the Mon-El problem and continue to get closer (although I’m not sure if anything’s really happened between them yet). In the 20th Century, the Legionnaires find Superboy and tell him they really need his help. In the Phantom Zone, Tellus and Phantom Girl find Mon-El, but he’s in a mood and won’t come back with them, so Tellus knocks him out. Superboy and the three Legionnaires return through time 
(with a brief stopover in Hex’s bleak future) and wonder why time-travel has become so difficult. They get to the 30th Century just as Tellus and Phantom Girl return with Mon-El. Brainy takes blood from Superboy (using a kryptonite-infused needle), irradiates it with more kryptonite, and injects it into Mon-El, saying this will either cure him permanently, or kill him (also permanently). It turns out to be the latter and Mon-El is fine, although the Crisis—and more specifically, John Byrne’s Superman reboot—will have pretty big repercussions for him (and Superboy, who will basically cease to exist).
New Teen Titans #21 – “On Top of the World” – Marv Wolfman/Eduardo Barreto/Romeo Tanghal, Pablo Marcos
Last issue, Cheshire lured the Titans (a de facto group put together by Wonder Girl, consisting of Flash, Speedy, Aqualad, Hawk, and Robin) to Switzerland, where an important peace conference is taking place. They assumed Cheshire was going to disrupt the conference, but she had a more personal agenda … killing Speedy, who fathered her child while working undercover for the government a while back. Cheshire attacks Speedy while he’s outside talking to Robin and tells him about his child before swearing to kill him for betraying her. Roy (who knew nothing about the kid) tells
Cheshire he loved her and lied to the government to protect her, but she’s not buying it. Speedy sends Robin to help the others fight Cheshire’s men and mixes it up with her. She gets the advantage, but can’t kill him because she still has feelings for him. She warns him to stay out of the fight, saying it’s not what it seems, but Speedy’s sense of duty won’t let him stand by while his friends are in trouble. The other Titans fight off Cheshire’s men, preventing them from killing the American ambassador. Hawk is still an asshole and tosses one goon off a cliff. Wonder Girl jumps over to save the guy and manages to catch him, but they both slam into the cliffside before finally 
grabbing a gondola cable. Speedy and Cheshire square off and he puts an arrow in her shoulder just as she tosses a grenade into the conference room. Aqualad goes after the grenade and Cheshire scratches Speedy with her poisoned fingernails, forcing Hawk to let her go so he can save Speedy. (So I guess Hawk isn’t completely deranged, just mostly.) The grenade turns out to be fake and Speedy isn’t really poisoned. He mentions what Cheshire said and King Faraday figures out the whole thing was a ruse to make America (and the Titans) look bad. The conference was supposed to be just diplomats, no heavy security, but when Faraday heard about Cheshire he brought the
Titans in without telling the Soviets, so now it looks like the Americans had super-powered goons at the conference, which automatically breaks the terms of the peace agreement and makes the Americans look like assholes. Flash runs into Cheshire, who’s having trouble because of Speedy’s arrow, but he gets jumped by the Church of Blood. Apparently the Church hired Cheshire to screw up the peace conference (they prefer a state of détente) and discredit the Titans. They leave, taking Cheshire with them. Wonder Girl finds the wounded Flash and freaks out, blaming herself for things going wrong since she’s the leader right now. News reports all over the world condemn the 
Titans for wrecking the peace conference, which is exactly what the Church of Blood wanted. At the Church’s headquarters on Zandia, they revel in their triumph (and we find out the Soviet ambassador is part of the Church of Blood) and tell Azrael he’ll soon fulfill his destiny … resurrecting the dead. In the prison cells, Arella wonders why she and Raven have been kidnapped by the Church. Raven is still kinda out of it, but offers to take away Arella’s pain. Dick (Nightwing) Grayson sneaks into Zandia disguised as a new Church recruit, using a heart-damper to disguise his heartbeat, which is how he was caught last time he infiltrated the Church. But the Church still detects his presence and decides to let him find Raven. In New York, Terry Long gets fired from his
teaching job because he didn’t publish a paper on schedule. He blames Donna (Wonder Girl) for not helping him write it and when she finds out, Donna blames herself too. Speedy goes to Hong Kong to see Cheshire and she allows him to see his daughter, Lian. On Zandia, Dick finds Raven but she’s not quite as he expected. In New York, Terry admits that his failure to write his paper is his fault not Donna’s, pointing out that he had over a year to write the paper before they even met and couldn’t do it. So, at least things are good between them, even if everything else is falling apart.
All-Star Squadron #59 – “I Sing the Body Robotic” – Roy Thomas/Arvell Jones/Vince Colletta
This one starts with a half-mangled robot (Mekanique) suddenly showing up in New York in 1942, which kinda freaks a few people out. The All-Stars are repairing the Perisphere and Robotman wants to fix Gernsback, their robotic butler. He’s a bit sensitive about the whole robot/human divide, even more than usual because he recently broke up with Joan Carter. Joan was his girlfriend when he was human (Bob Crane), but he’s been dating her in his fake human persona of Paul Dennis (complete with a rubber mask). He got tired of competing with Joan’s memories (of himself)
and didn’t want to tell her the truth, so he dumped her. The other All-Stars are still bothered by the missing JSA members (who were thrown into other dimensions by Harbinger), so everyone’s mood is rather dark. Mekanique shows up at the Perisphere and knocks Gernsback out when he won’t let her in. Inside, Firebrand tells Hourman she’s decided not to date anyone on the All-Stars, then gets blasted by Mekanique. The other All-Stars attack Mekanique, who claims she doesn’t know why she’s there. After a brief but intense fight, the All-Stars are ready to smash Mekanique, but Robotman won’t let them, pointing out that if they can treat him like a real person, they ought 
to give Mekanique the benefit of the doubt. She mumbles one word (“Rotwang” … and yes, it’s a Metropolis reference) and Robotman takes her to his private lab to fix her up. The All-Stars wonder if maybe they were hasty in assuming Mekanique was a bad guy, but the evil red gleam in her eye would seem to indicate they were right. There’s another back-up story about a missing JSAer (with art by Mike Clark and Jerry Acerno); this time it’s Johnny Thunder on an alternate version of Mercury. He runs into some giant intelligent ants and saves them from giant anteaters.
Infinity Inc. #27 – “Memories” – Roy and DannThomas/Todd McFarlane/Tony DeZuniga
This is basically a flashback issue, with Lyta (Fury) Trevor trying to deal with the fact her parents (the Earth-2 Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor) have left Earth to live on Olympus … and have retroactively been wiped out of continuity. It’s like they never existed, but Fury can still remember them, which is kinda screwing her head up. She focuses in on a specific memory about meeting some of the other Infinitors when they were kids. The JSA were being honoured at a White House dinner and left their kids (who were all around twelve at the
time) at Steve and Wonder Woman’s house. That’s where Lyta first met Al (Nuklon) Rothstein, who was Atom’s godson. Hector (Silver Scarab) Hall showed up too, which made Lyta happy since she’d already met him, and developed quite the crush. (For his part, the twelve-year-old Hector still thought girls were kinda icky.) Hourman’s son (Rick Tyler) showed up to complete the quartet and even back then Rick didn’t get along too well with his father, who wanted him to study instead of goofing off. Naturally, Rick chose to goof off and the four kids amused themselves by checking out Wonder Woman’s 
trophy room, looking through her snapshots, and accidentally using Wonder Woman’s lasso to reveal Al is afraid to fly. They ended up playing a rousing game of baseball; Lyta’s powers gave her the advantage in the game, but Hector stuck a piece of Nth Metal to the ball, sending Al’s pop fly into the stratosphere. Lyta almost got killed trying to catch it and suggested they use her mom’s invisible plane to retrieve the ball. Wonder Woman knew someone had taken her plane and summoned it to the White House, where she gave Lyta shit. On the bright side, the flight cured Al’s fear of flying. Back in the present,
Fury is feeling really screwed up by the paradox of her parents never having existed, yet she exists and she remembers them. Brainwave Jr. decides to “help” Fury by removing all memory of her parents while she’s asleep, hoping she’ll figure out some other background for herself. That might end up being a mistake, but Roy’s hands were kinda tied by the changes brought on by the Crisis.