Black Adam: The Dark Age #1

Spinning directly out of the events of 52 and Countdown, this six-part limited series puts DC's most formidable antihero front and center in October 2007. Doug Mahnke's cover art sets an immediately unsettling tone — a grim, determined Black Adam clutches a grotesquely decayed, dripping corpse dressed in ancient robes, all bathed in sickly green energy that crackles around them both. Writer Peter J. Tomasi and artist Mahnke signal from the very first issue that The Dark Age will be something haunting and deeply personal for the former ruler of Kahndaq.