Shade, the Changing Man #18

Shade cuts a striking, solitary figure on this December 1991 issue — his wild red hair and boldly patterned coat swirling against a churning wash of orange and gold, energy crackling at his fingertips. Jamie Hewlett's cover frames the scene with jagged, hand-lettered words — "End Scream Home Death" — that feel less like a tagline and more like a fractured state of mind. With Peter Milligan writing and Chris Bachalo on interior art, this Suggested for Mature Readers series was doing something genuinely distinctive in DC's 1991 lineup.