Star Trek #21

DC's Star Trek #21 (December 1985) serves up a genuinely unsettling cover by penciler Tom Sutton and inker Bill Wray: two Starfleet crew members in gold and red uniforms are firing a phaser point-blank at a towering, flame-wreathed figure whose distorted, anguished face looms over them amid a swirling vortex of energy and rocky debris. The story is titled "Dreamworld," and the cover's surreal, almost nightmarish quality — clawed hands, bursting fire, and a sense of reality coming apart at the seams — suggests the crew is up against something that defies ordinary explanation. With Rozakis writing and Tom Sutton on interior art alongside inker Ricardo Villagrán, this mid-series DC run continues to push the franchise into genuinely strange territory.