The Night Force #3

The cover of Night Force #3 (1982) delivers an unsettling nautical tableau — a massive vessel looms against a glowing full moon while two men are hurled through churning, violent waves, one of them caught mid-scream as energy blasts tear through the chaos. Gene Colan's pencils and Bob Smith's inks give the whole scene a kinetic, almost nightmarish momentum that suits a series whose tagline promises its heroes exist "to save mankind." Marv Wolfman and Colan's supernatural thriller continues with "The Summoning, Chapter Three: Journeys," and this cover makes clear the road ahead is anything but safe.