Arion, Lord of Atlantis #17

Jan Duursema's cover for this March 1984 DC issue pulses with serpentine menace — a massive coiled creature dominates the composition, its scaled body ensnaring multiple figures while a red-haired warrior in blue lunges forward with a blade. Looming ghostlike in the background is a wide-eyed, rune-marked face, while two other imperiled figures — a dark-haired woman and a blonde youth — struggle within the creature's grip. "A Brother's Keeper!" promises the kind of mythic, high-stakes adventure that made Arion, Lord of Atlantis one of DC's more distinctive fantasy offerings of the early 1980s.