The Ray #5

Issue five of DC's 1994 series puts the "Generation Gap!" tagline front and center, teasing a conflict that feels genuinely charged. The cover by Joe Quesada and Art Nichols is a striking cosmic tableau: a glowing, yellow-energy Ray streaks upward over a massive planet while a dark, shadowy figure looms below, the two connected by a starburst grid of white and orange light bolts that crackles with tension. With Priest writing and Howard Porter on interior art, this series was clearly swinging for something ambitious, and this cover delivers a compelling visual promise of that generational clash.