Arion, Lord of Atlantis #26

A looming, spectral demon figure dominates the background of Jan Duursema's cover for this December 1984 installment of DC's mystical Atlantean saga, its grasping hands and predatory grin casting a shadow over the two figures below. Arion, resplendent in his blue-and-gold sorcerer's garb, recoils as a dark-clad woman reaches toward his face — a moment charged with tension and unease. "Bitter Friends" promises exactly the kind of emotionally fraught, magically dangerous storytelling that made this series such a rewarding corner of the DC universe in the mid-1980s.