The Phantom #8

Lee Falk's Ghost Who Walks charges straight at the viewer in purple suit and skull-buckled belt, pistol raised and expression fierce, while a trio of looming, red-eyed apes close in from the jungle shadows behind him. Luke McDonnell's cover for this 1989 DC issue captures real tension — the Phantom is outnumbered and deep in the wild, but he's not slowing down. Writer Mark Verheiden's "Apes" arc promises exactly the kind of primal, jungle-set confrontation that makes this series such a satisfying pulp adventure.