Legion of Super-Heroes #50 – “Life and Death and the End of Time” – Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen/Mike DeCarlo
This one starts with the Legionnaires working together to figure out a way to pierce the time barrier and confront Time Trapper so they can make him pay for screwing with history and killing Superboy. Ultra Boy and Timber Wolf retrieve the Time Cube from the Institute, while Rond Vidar (who refuses to explain his sudden resurrection from the dead) helps Brainiac 5 wire everything together. Dream Girl and White Witch bring the comatose body of Jaxon Rugarth (aka Infinite Man, who’s been brain-dead since their last encounter). White
Witch isn’t happy that they’re using Rugarth and takes off. Brainy hooks Rugarth into the time machine and sends him through the endless cycle of time, hoping that by recreating Rugarth’s original experiment the Infinite Man will reappear and his power will enable the time machine to get through Time Trapper’s barrier. All the Legionnaires assume they’ll be coming on the time jaunt, but the original conspirators (Brainy, Saturn Girl, Mon-El, and Duo Damsel) take off in the Time Cube, leaving everyone else behind. (Although Dream Girl notices Rond Vidar is gone too.) The four Legionnaires (and Vidar) make it 
through the time barrier and arrive at the End of Time, where they’re confronted by Time Trapper. Unfortunately, Time Trapper is far more powerful than they’d imagined and he easily shrugs off their assaults, pounding them all to a pulp (and killing one of Duo Damsel’s selves). Rond Vidar reveals his big secret—that he has his father’s Green Lantern ring—but even the ring’s power is nothing compared to Time Trapper’s. (Vidar being a GL also explains how he survived Universo’s attack when everyone thought he was dead.) Brainy admits that Time Trapper is a force of entropy, a being who represents the end of
all things … if you subscribe to that theory of the universe. But Brainy mentions a different theory, where time is a loop folding in on itself and endlessly repeating. That’s his cue to unleash Infinite Man, who confronts Time Trapper with power that rivals his own. As the two entities fight (and argue the superiority of their respective philosophies), Brainy has Vidar gather the others and protect them from the backlash. Infinite Man opens a portal to the beginning of time (a place anathema to Time Trapper’s very existence) and Brainy uses his force-shield to push Time Trapper through. The backlash catches the Legionnaires, but Vidar’s ring protects them and they end up back in the 30th Century in Brainy’s lab. They’re in pretty bad shape, but they’re alive and Brainy is certain that they’ve ended Time Trapper’s existence for good.
New Teen Titans #47 – “Past Tense” – Marv Wolfman/Kelley Jones/Romeo Tanghal
This one starts with a hippie from STAR Labs (Peace Foster) upgrading the computer system in Titans’ headquarters. After he’s done, most of the team decide to go to the movies, but Danny Chase has to stay back and study. Later, he can’t sleep, so he wanders down to the kitchen for a snack and decides to check out the personnel files of his teammates, since their personal histories are now accessible on the computer because Jericho’s writing a book about the Titans. Danny is startled by Jericho (returning from a date), but Jericho says it’s cool if
Danny reads the files, so they check them out together. That leads to a series of vignettes retelling the origin of each Titan, starting with Jericho. As they go through the origins (Raven, Cyborg, Nightwing, Starfire, Changeling) Danny gets new insights into his teammates (having only read their rather dry CBI files previously) and reveals to Jericho that he’s nervous about fitting in and being accepted as part of the team. As they finish Changeling’s origin, Danny realizes the rest of the team has returned and they’ve been listening to him. He 
and Changeling start sniping at each other as usual, but they’re interrupted when all the electronic systems in the Tower go nuts. After the Titans run around shutting down various systems and trying to contain the damage, they find a rubber mask and a note from Wildebeest. Turns out he was the hippie tech dude who worked on their computers and not only did he sabotage the system, he accessed the files so now he knows all their histories. They feel pretty stupid for letting Wildebeest get their info, but Danny’s curious as to why Wonder Girl’s origin wasn’t in with the others. She explains that she’s an orphan
and has no idea about her past, or even where her powers come from (since she has no connection to Wonder Woman in post-Crisis canon). That’s obviously setting up a future storyline. So this was basically just filler, with a bunch of redrawn origins, although there is a cool pin-up at the end by George Perez.
Suicide Squad #17 – “Battleground Manhattan” – John Ostrander/Luke McDonnell/Bob Lewis
This issue features the return of the Jihad, the terrorist team we last saw in issue 2. This story is mostly set-up for the big confrontation next issue, introducing us to the new (and old) members of the Jihad. It starts with a ten-year-old girl Northern Irish girl called Badb, whose power is to cause people to hate each other for no reason. She demonstrates that power by making a bunch of random pedestrians beat the shit out of each other. In the subway, Agni shows off his pyrokinetic abilities by burning a
car full of commuters. At the United Nations, the Thuggee killer Ravan uses some kind of nanotech to put Koschei inside a guard, taking over his (and another guard that Koschei kills) mind. Elsewhere, Jaculi (a new version, since the original died in issue 2) sows chaos by wasting people and blowing up cars. At the World Trade Center (yeah, this was 13 years before 9/11) the Jihad leader Rustam sends Ifrit (some kind of AI ghost) to disrupt the computers and kill anyone they find. In the Lincoln Tunnel, a couple of delivery drivers 
get a surprise when Manticore (another new version) suddenly busts loose from their truck and starts smashing cars in the tunnel. The Jihad takes over a TV studio to broadcast a threat and Rick Flagg decides the Squad should go after them. Amanda Waller doesn’t like that idea, but Flagg is adamant and she has no choice but to agree. Waller wonders if Checkmate could attack Jihad headquarters while they’re all in New York, but decides to use Checkmate to dig up dirt on Senator Cray and Tolliver (who’ve been threatening to expose the Squad if Waller doesn’t help get Cray re-elected). Nightshade
shows up (in a new costume) and demands to be taken to New York to fight the Jihad; I guess her powers still aren’t working since she got back from the Nightshade Dimension last issue. Waller agrees to send her on a jet and takes a call from Tolliver, pretending to acquiesce to his demands.