New Talent Showcase #2

DC's 1984 anthology series dedicated to emerging voices, New Talent Showcase #2 promises 32 big pages spotlighting some of comicdom's freshest artistic discoveries. The cover — penciled and inked by a collaborative team including Tom Mandrake, Stan Woch, Gary Kwapisz, and Scott Hampton — presents a vivid collage of characters: a striking blue-haired woman in the foreground, a masked figure soaring overhead, and a group of colorful adventurers clustered together against an exotic, domed cityscape. Featuring the "Sky Dogs" story "A Magic Carpet Ride" by writer L. B. Kellogg and artist Tom Mandrake, this is a genuinely exciting snapshot of the new creative energy DC was cultivating in the mid-1980s.