The Spectre #18

This September 1988 issue of The Spectre delivers one of the more unsettling covers DC put out that year — an extreme low-angle view straight up into the Spectre's gaping, fanged maw as a small, helpless figure in pink tumbles downward toward those teeth, a burst of red impact at the center of the composition. The green-bordered perspective creates a vertiginous sense of dread, with the fiery yellow-orange sky burning behind the Spirit of Vengeance's skull-like face. Subtitled "The Second Death of Jim Corrigan," this issue by Moench, Wozniak, and Badger promises the kind of supernatural stakes that made this series one of DC's more ambitious darker offerings of the late '80s.