Captain Atom #23

The cover of Captain Atom #23 (1988) is a striking visual confrontation: a silver-skinned Captain Atom, visibly wounded with a red mark on his chest, recoils through a storm of fire and energy against a massive, shadowy cosmic entity looming behind him — all rendered with bold intensity by cover penciler Pat Broderick and inker Bob Smith. The swirling backdrop of flame, bubbles, and deep-space darkness gives the whole scene an eerie, otherworldly weight that perfectly suits a story titled "Prey for the Dead." With Cary Bates and Greg Weisman steering the narrative, this issue promises the kind of cosmic tension that made the late-'80s DC landscape so compelling.