Tarzan #15

Dark Horse's Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation heads somewhere decidedly urban and dangerous with issue #15, kicking off the two-part "Tooth and Nail." Mark Schultz's cover — pencils and inks both — captures a striking moment: Tarzan leaping through the air, claws outstretched, bearing down on a sinister top-hatted figure clutching a bloodied knife over a fallen red-haired woman, while rats lurk ominously along a brick wall nearby. It's a vivid 1997 image that places the lord of the jungle squarely in a gritty, gaslit underworld setting, with Kindzierski, Manoukian, and Roucher delivering the interior story.