The Spectre #33

Doug Beekman's painted cover for this 1995 installment sets an appropriately haunted mood: a massive, dark-cloaked figure dominates the foreground amid the ruins of what appears to be a decayed, otherworldly landscape, while a second shadowy figure — ragged and spectral — looms to the left against a swirling cosmic sky of deep blues and greens. The atmosphere is brooding and immersive, exactly the kind of image that made John Ostrander's run on The Spectre such a compelling exploration of cosmic justice and spiritual dread. With interior work by Hugh Haynes and Tim Roddick, "Fatal Tissue" — the second chapter of the "Monsters" arc — promises the kind of morally weighty storytelling that defines this series at its best.