Batman and the Outsiders #29

Part two of "The Truth about Looker" arrives in January 1986, and Alan Davis's cover delivers an immediate sense of peril — Batman and the Outsiders are shown struggling as if caught in a churning aquatic force, with the tagline "Element Man — Watery Death!" making the threat unmistakably clear. The team, rendered in Davis's crisp, expressive linework, includes figures in green, red-and-yellow, and black costumes all swept up in the same swirling energy field. Mike W. Barr's ongoing mystery around Looker continues to build, and this cover promises the kind of underwater urgency that made Batman and the Outsiders one of DC's more adventurous team books of the mid-'80s.