Booster Gold #15

Booster Gold lunges toward the reader in his signature gold-and-blue suit, mouth open in a shout, while behind him a red-haired woman in a star-emblazoned costume and two green-uniformed soldiers scramble through what looks like a high-tech corridor — and a dark-clad figure with a raised fist bears down on them all. The cover's blunt declaration, "For crimes against the state — Booster Gold must die!", sets an urgent, high-stakes tone for "Runback," the fifteenth chapter of Dan Jurgens and Bruce Patterson's 1987 series. It's a tense, kinetic image — penciled by Jurgens and inked by Bob Lewis — that captures the series at full stride.