The Spectre #24

From DC's December 1994 run of The Spectre, issue #24 presents a genuinely unsettling vision: the Spirit of Vengeance rendered as a vast, writhing teal-green apparition, his hooded form dissolving into sinuous tendrils that curl downward toward a mound of grinning skulls scattered across the bottom of the frame. The cover by Rob Bliss carries a painterly, almost nightmarish quality — all murk and glowing green mist — that suits DC's darkest supernatural avenger perfectly. John Ostrander's story "A Small Boldness" promises the kind of morally weighted, otherworldly tension this series delivered so well in 1994.