ElfQuest #12

A wide-eyed, blonde elf clutches a gleaming knife and scrambles desperately forward as an enormous, grasping hand reaches up from below — the fiery orange atmosphere and encroaching dark tendrils making the threat feel immediate and inescapable. Wendy and Richard Pini's beloved saga continues in this 1986 Epic Comics/Marvel edition, with Wendy Pini handling both the pencils and inks on a cover that crackles with tension. "Hands of the Symbol Maker" promises exactly the kind of high-stakes, richly imagined fantasy storytelling that made ElfQuest one of the most distinctive series of its era.