The Spectre #17

The Spectre looms enormous and menacing in his green hood and cape over a terrified man who clutches his own face in a silent scream — and the nightmare doesn't stop there, as jagged, fang-filled creatures and a grinning skull crowd the composition in a cascade of dread. Tristan Schane's painted-style cover for this April 1994 issue captures the overwhelming, oppressive horror that defines John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake's run on this title. "Into the Dark Side" promises exactly the kind of unsettling, spiritually charged storytelling that made this series one of DC's most distinctive of the decade.