Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10

From Mirage's original black-and-white era comes this April 1987 chapter of Eastman and Laird's landmark series, with a cover by Peter Laird that puts the menace front and center — Shredder looms large, sai gleaming, as a red-masked Turtle braces defiantly in the foreground, the machinery-filled background hinting at a high-stakes industrial confrontation. The raw intensity of Laird's linework captures exactly what made this indie sensation so gripping, and "Silent Partner" promises the kind of hard-edged storytelling that set these Turtles apart from anything else on the stands in 1987.