The Phantom #6

This 1989 DC series entry, subtitled "Waste," tackles a story with unmistakable environmental urgency — and Luke McDonnell's cover sets the tone immediately. The foreground shows a man cradling a frail, clearly ill child amid a grim landscape of leaking, skull-marked industrial drums oozing yellow-green toxic waste, while the purple-clad Phantom watches from horseback on his white stallion in the background. It's a striking, socially conscious image that signals writer Mark Verheiden pushing the Ghost Who Walks into grittier, real-world territory.