The Outsiders #5

Jim Aparo's cover for this March 1986 issue presents a genuinely inventive tableau: three ghostly figures — a dark-robed specter, a silver-suited man wrapped in chains, and a robed figure bearing a torch — advance through a snow-covered graveyard toward a kneeling figure seen from behind, the whole scene framed as a clear nod to Dickens. Mike W. Barr and Aparo's "A Christmas Carol — 1985" puts the Outsiders at the center of a holiday-themed story that blends superhero action with one of literature's most enduring moral tales. It's an unexpectedly atmospheric chapter in the series, and Aparo's pencil-and-ink work gives the wintry cemetery setting a genuinely eerie elegance.