Starman #16

This November 1989 issue of DC's Starman wears its emotional weight right on the cover — Tom Lyle's artwork presents a haunting composition centered on a looming, blue-toned figure of Starman hovering over a painfully human scene: an elderly man lying in a hospital bed with an oxygen mask, and a younger man seated beside him, head buried in his hands in quiet anguish. Titled "Father's Day," the cover promises something more personal and affecting than your typical superhero fare, with Stern, Lyle, and Hanna delivering a story that looks as much at family bonds as it does at heroics. A genuinely moving entry in the series.