New Talent Showcase #13

DC's New Talent Showcase was built to spotlight rising voices, and issue #13 (January 1985) delivers with "Found and Lost" — a story by writer Mindy Newell with art, inks, and lettering all by Eric Shanower. The cover, also fully rendered by Shanower, frames a confident blonde woman's face in close-up alongside a male figure in a white racing suit carrying a helmet, with a vintage race car and a woman in pink visible in the background against a checkered-flag foreground — a composition that evokes the glamour and tension of 1950s motorsport. It's a polished, character-driven package that makes a strong case for why DC was right to give these creators a stage.