The Shadow #13

Part 6 of "Seven Deadly Finns" reaches its conclusion here, and Kyle Baker's cover makes the stakes unmistakably clear — a snarling, hulking figure has a man firmly in its grip, the struggle rendered in Baker's moody, painterly style against a near-total darkness broken only by flashes of red and white. Andy Helfer and Baker's mature-readers Shadow series was consistently one of DC's most daring books in 1988, and this penultimate-to-final chapter promises the kind of visceral, no-holds-barred finish the arc has been building toward.