Green Lantern #60

That striking close-up of a sweat-drenched, wide-eyed Green Lantern filling nearly the entire cover — with a glowing, concentric-ringed figure silhouetted against a bold red background — promises something genuinely unsettling in "Spotlight on the Lamplighter!" Writer Gardner Fox and artist Gil Kane (with inks by Sid Greene) brought their signature Silver Age energy to this 1968 DC adventure, while cover pencils by Kane and inks by Murphy Anderson make the Emerald Gladiator's distress feel viscerally immediate. At twelve cents, this is a wonderfully designed issue that shows just how much expressive power a single face can carry.