The Spectre #23

John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake's November 1994 series continues with "Consequence," and the cover — penciled and inked by Christian Alamy — makes an immediate impression: the Spectre lunges forward in his tattered green cloak, a burst of crackling supernatural energy erupting at his chest while a crowd of shadowy, hollow-eyed figures looms behind him in cool blue darkness. It's a composition that captures DC's Spirit of Vengeance at his most unsettling — powerful yet surrounded, the ragged edges of his cape suggesting a force that's barely contained.