Star Trek: The Next Generation #52

Picard's beloved holodeck alter ego Dixon Hill takes center stage on this 1993 DC issue, with the fedora-wearing detective rendered in classic hard-boiled style by cover penciler Jason Palmer and inker Jerome Moore. The cover is a love letter to film noir — a confident Hill dominates the foreground while a red-dressed femme fatale lounges nearby, a blue-hatted redhead looks on, and a shadowy figure lurks in a doorway behind him. With the story "The Rich and the Dead!" and the creative team of Friedman and Marcos on the interior, this issue clearly leans into the smoky, stylish atmosphere of TNG's most entertainingly pulpy corner of the holodeck.