Cloak and Dagger #1

Opening Marvel's four-issue limited series in October 1983, this issue launches Cloak and Dagger with a cover — penciled by Rick Leonardi and inked by Terry Austin — that immediately establishes the duo's striking visual contrast: Dagger, luminous in white, stands poised with a blade of light while the massive, shadowy form of Cloak looms behind her against a graffiti-splashed urban backdrop rendered in vivid pinks and purples. The tension between light and darkness, vulnerability and power, is all right there on the cover before you've even turned a page. With Bill Mantlo writing and Rick Leonardi on interior art, "Chapter One: The Priest" promises a street-level Marvel story with a genuinely distinctive visual identity.