Jonah Hex #83

The cover of this 1984 DC Western tells you everything you need to know about the tone: a close-up of Jonah Hex's scarred, haunted face peers over a pistol, split by a whiskey bottle that distorts his reflection into something almost ghoulish — cover pencils by Ed Hannigan and inks by Tony DeZuniga making every line feel tense and claustrophobic. The tagline — "You liked heroes as a kid? Great! Now maybe it's time you grew up!" — sets the mood perfectly for a series that never flinched from the darker side of the frontier. With interior art by Tony DeZuniga and writing by Michael Fleisher, this is mature, moody Western storytelling from one of DC's most distinctive titles.