Doctor Fate #2

The second chapter of this 1987 four-issue DC limited series plunges straight into dread, and the cover by Keith Giffen and Dave Hunt makes that unmistakably clear — Dr. Fate's gleaming golden helmet is clutched in the bloodied grip of massive teal hands, surrounded on all sides by rows of gnashing, monstrous teeth. It's a genuinely unsettling image that frames the Lord of Order as something vulnerable, the helmet itself cracked and dangling two limp arms as if its wearer has been torn free. With J. M. DeMatteis writing and the story titled "Asylum," this issue promises the kind of dark, mythically charged mysticism that makes Dr. Fate such a compelling corner of the DC universe.