Doctor Fate #1

DC's mystic guardian gets his own four-issue limited series here, with DeMatteis, Giffen, and Hunt bringing a brooding intensity to one of comics' most distinctive heroes. The cover — penciled by Keith Giffen and inked by Dick Giordano — places Doctor Fate alone in a desolate, snow-dusted wasteland, his golden helm and billowing cape battle-worn, while creeping tendrils and scattered debris surround him beneath a turbulent sky. The ominous tagline warns that this is "a war he cannot win — and when he loses, so do we all," setting a suitably cosmic and foreboding tone for everything that follows.