Dark Horse Presents #18

Dark Horse Presents #18 (1988) offers a quietly haunting cover by Paul Chadwick: the massive, stone-grey figure of Concrete sits hunched and contemplative, surrounded by a floating constellation of disembodied human faces drifting across a pale blue sky. The left side of the cover teases the issue's anthology lineup — Masque, Bob the Alien, and Concrete's own story "A Sky of Heads: Quality Time" — making this a pleasingly varied package. Chadwick's artwork brings a meditative, almost melancholy mood to the cover that feels genuinely distinctive among 1988's superhero-dominated shelves.