The Incredible Hulk #358

That cover demands your attention and refuses to let go — a massive, anguished gray Hulk face fills the entire image, mouth wrenched open in a raw howl while enormous hands clutch his own head, green fluid dripping from his eyes and brow in a genuinely unsettling display of pain. The corner box spotlights the gray, trench-coated Joe Fixit persona, a neat contrast to the visceral torment rendered by Jeff Purves on the main cover. With Peter David writing and a story titled "Inferno-2, Hulk-----0," this August 1989 issue promises the kind of darkly clever storytelling that made this era of the series so compelling.