The Phantom Stranger #1

DC's brooding supernatural wanderer steps into a four-issue mini-series with a cover that sets the tone beautifully — the Phantom Stranger, cape billowing and gloved hands crackling with an otherworldly burst of energy, is surrounded by swirling newspaper headlines screaming "WAR!," "PLAGUE," "RIOT," and "Famine," suggesting forces far larger than any single hero. Mike Mignola's pencils, inked by P. Craig Russell, give the figure a dramatic, shadowy weight that suits DC's most enigmatic mystic perfectly. "The Heart of a Stranger" promises something genuinely compelling from this October 1987 team-up of Kupperberg, Mignola, and Russell.