Nathaniel Dusk II #2

Part two of "Apple Peddlers Die at Noon" throws private investigator Nathaniel Dusk into the thick of it, as Gene Colan's cover depicts a wild car chase tearing through a rain-slicked city street lined with Depression-era marquees — the Apollo starring Cab Calloway, the Capitol Theatre, and a Ruppert billboard flashing past in a blur of headlights and exhaust smoke. Two figures are locked in a desperate struggle in the speeding open-top automobile, the city's gritty nightlife streaking behind them in Colan's characteristically fluid, cinematic style. Don McGregor and Gene Colan's four-part 1985 mini-series continues to deliver noir atmosphere with real style and period authenticity.