Jonni Thunder #3

The penultimate chapter of DC's 1985 four-part mini-series captures Jonni Thunder's dual nature beautifully: on the left, a sharp-suited, gun-drawn blonde private eye strides through stark black, and on the right, her super-powered Thunderbolt alter ego surges forward in an electrifying blaze of yellow and red. Dick Giordano's cover art splits the two identities down a jagged lightning-bolt divide, with the taglines "Private Eye by Trade" and "Super-Hero by Chance" summing up the character's appealing contradiction. Roy and Dann Thomas's story, "Bolts across the Bay!," promises the kind of noir-meets-superheroics blend that makes this mini-series a genuinely fun corner of the mid-'80s DC lineup.