Green Lantern #188

A Green Lantern stands front and center in full costume, ring extended, as a stunned crowd reacts around him — a fellow Lantern in green, onlookers with microphones, and a chorus of shocked and delighted faces all witness something clearly momentous, captured perfectly in the cover's dueling speech bubbles: "He can't do that! He can't reveal his secret identity!" / "Too late, Hal — he just did!" Steve Englehart and Joe Staton were clearly having a great time with this 1985 run, and this cover by Staton and inker Bruce Patterson crackles with dramatic energy and a crowd-scene dynamism that pulls you right in. As a bonus, the issue also promises a Green Lantern Corps backup tale by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons — making this a genuinely packed single issue.