Green Lantern #85

Retribution" reaches its thunderous conclusion in this April 1997 finale, and the cover by Darryl Banks and Kevin Nowlan makes the stakes unmistakably clear. A battered but unbroken Kyle Rayner — shirt torn, Green Lantern ring gleaming — grips a jagged, bone-like weapon with fierce determination, surrounded by alien tentacles and an eerie green-tinged environment that suggests anything but an easy fight. That tagline, "…but NEVER defeated!", captures exactly the defiant energy Ron Marz and his art team bring to this three-part arc's payoff.