Adventures of Superman Annual #6

Part of DC's 1994 Elseworlds annuals initiative, this oversized issue imagines a striking alternate-reality Justice League assembled around a trench-coated Superman at center. Mike Mignola's cover art renders the whole ensemble — Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, a young Superboy-like figure, and a looming masked silhouette — in a brooding palette of deep reds and amber that is unmistakably his. Karl Kesel, Brock Hor Jr., and Curt Shoultz bring "The Super Seven, Part One: The Longest Night" to life inside, promising the kind of reimagined heroism that made DC's Elseworlds line so compelling.