The Spectre #25

Part two of the six-part "Ghosts in the Machine" arc arrives with a cover that puts the Spectre's ghostly, green-hooded visage front and center — literally bursting through the screen of an arcade cabinet while terrified bystanders recoil in glowing, sickly yellow horror all around him. It's a wonderfully unsettling image, the collision of 1989 pop-culture tech with DC's most fearsome supernatural avenger rendered in sharp pencils by Tom Artis and inked by Keith Wilson. Doug Moench and Artis were clearly hitting their stride on this series, and this issue promises the kind of eerie, high-stakes storytelling that made The Spectre one of DC's most distinctive late-'80s titles.