Avengers Spotlight #30

Avengers Spotlight #30 delivers a genuinely unsettling street-level moment for Hawkeye, with Joe Jusko's cover showing the archer reeling backward in his purple costume as a gun blast catches him point-blank — the bold cover copy leaving no room for doubt: "Not a hoax! Not an impostor!" The shooter, a heavyset figure with a skull-adorned headband and gold chains, dominates the foreground in an urban setting, while a secondary scene in the background hints at more chaos unfolding below. Billed as a book-length thriller, this 1990 issue pairs Steve Gerber's writing with Al Milgrom on interior art for what promises to be a grounded, high-stakes chapter in Clint Barton's story.