Countdown to Mystery #6

Issue six of this eight-part DC series arrives in April 2008 with a cover by Mario Alberti that crackles with mystical tension — Doctor Fate lunges forward through an explosion of shattering glass or ice shards, his golden helmet and amulet gleaming against a burst of radiant energy, while a smaller dark figure is caught in the chaos before him. The cover teases two intertwined narratives: a "bitter world within Doctor Fate" and a "better world without Eclipso," framing hero and villain as two sides of the same coin. Inside, Matthew Sturges and artist Stephen Jorge Segovia continue "The Music of the Spheres" with Part 3: "Retrograde Motion," promising another turn in this ambitious miniseries that weaves magic and moral complexity through the DC Universe.