Moonshadow #6

This sixth chapter of Marvel's Epic Comics series bills itself as "a fairy tale for grown-ups," and Kent Williams's painterly cover makes that promise feel completely earned. The main image is a luminous, watercolor-style close-up of a young, wide-eyed figure wrapped in a soft hood, rendered with a delicate vulnerability that sets Moonshadow apart from anything else on the 1986 rack; above it, a smaller vignette shows two shadowy, top-hatted figures looming with an air of quiet menace. With J. M. DeMatteis writing and Williams handling every visual layer — pencils, inks, and color — issue #6, "Through the Window," is a striking installment in one of the era's most visually distinctive series.