Starman #8

Tony Harris's painted-style cover for Starman #8 sets an immediately unsettling tone, depicting a pale, tattooed woman in a red dress gazing up in apparent terror at a massive, grey-skinned supernatural brute with glowing red eyes looming behind her. Below her, a figure wearing aviator goggles — seemingly Jack Knight — is caught in the grip of a serpentine tendril, his head tilted back helplessly. James Robinson, Harris, and Von Grawbadger were clearly leaning into gothic horror territory with "A (K)night at the Circus II," and this striking 1995 cover makes a compelling case that Opal City's strangest nights happen under the big top.