Amethyst #3

The third chapter of this four-part 1988 DC series arrives with a striking cover by Esteban Maroto: a vast, ethereal vision of Amethyst — crowned and wild-haired, her spectral form dominating the upper half of the image — looms over two combatants locked in fierce struggle below, one wielding a sword in red-and-black, the other in blue, wreathed in crackling yellow energy. The bold subtitle "The Sacrifice!" adds real urgency to the confrontation. With Keith Giffen and Mindy Newell crafting the story "Bloody Sun at Noon," this penultimate issue carries the sense of a series building toward something genuinely consequential.