The Shadow Strikes #11

The Shadow looms as a massive, ominous silhouette behind a startled woman in a pink ruffled dress, who recoils from her vanity mirror — where the cloaked figure is reflected in the rainy glass, close and threatening. Eduardo Barreto's cover art captures that perfect pulp-era tension between glamour and dread, the perfume bottles and jewelry on the dressing table making the intrusion feel all the more unsettling. "Out of the Past," written by Gerard Jones with art by Ron Wagner and Stan Drake, promises exactly the moody, period-flavored mystery that made DC's 1990 Shadow series such a satisfying revival of the classic character.