Black Lightning #7

Rich Buckler and Vince Colletta deliver a genuinely gripping cover for this 1978 DC issue, with Black Lightning standing defiantly in his blue costume as a red-haired villain sprawls at his feet taunting him — "You can fight us all, Black Lightning… but can you fight the man who killed your father?" — while a menacing dark silhouette looms ominously in the background and a fallen figure in yellow looks on from the left. That shadowy mystery presence makes the cover's challenge land with real weight, turning a straightforward brawl scene into something more personal and unsettling. Tony Isabella's "The Conscience of the Killer" promises exactly the kind of street-level drama with emotional stakes that made this series one of DC's most distinctive offerings of the late 1970s.