The Shadow Strikes #10

The brooding tension of pulp fiction comes alive on Eduardo Barreto's cover, where the Shadow stands cloaked and hat-brimmed atop a rooftop ledge while the massive, menacing visage of Shiwan Khan looms ghost-like in the night sky above him. It's a striking composition that frames the clash of wills at the heart of "Fireworks, Part 3," the concluding chapter of a story by Gerard Jones and Barreto. DC's 1990 The Shadow Strikes series was clearly in confident hands with this moody, atmospheric entry.