My favorite
issue of this for
all time is their
life on mars issue. The
cover showed an
extreme magnification (using an
electron microscope) of what was obviously a mutated
fly (probably taken from some
biology textbook), labelled as "
images
NASA doesn't want you to see" and the like. (This being shortly after the possible evidence of proto-
bacteria in the possibly-
Martian meteorite.)
That's not why this is my favorite issue, why I've kept this issue around for a few years. The reason is that there's a two-page exposé on the Y2K bug, giving all the hyperbolic sensationalistic hype ("planes will fall out of the sky," "everything with a microchip will turn on its owners," etc. etc.), with the most fucking hilarious inset image I have ever seen:
It was a picture of Bill Gates, with the caption "Mankind's only hope."