The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

Comics' greatest father-and-son superhero team return in the classic Captain Thunder and Blue Bolt adventure, "Maximum Bad," by Roy & Dann Thomas, Grant Miehm, and E. R. Cruz.