The Spectre #22

The Spectre's white-clad form lies sprawled across a sun-baked desert landscape, overwhelmed by a mass of grasping red demonic claws tearing at his green cloak — it's a viscerally unsettling image that suggests DC's Spirit of Vengeance may be facing something that can actually hurt him. Bart Sears and Mark Pennington deliver a cover with real menace, the swarming crimson hands and sandy desert setting (complete with prickly pear cactus) creating a striking contrast against the Spectre's spectral white. Writer Doug Moench's "The Cow Butchers" promises the kind of dark, supernatural storytelling this 1988 run does so well.