The Unexpected #204

A giant shadowy figure looms over a young blonde girl seated between two stone blocks, clutching a doll — and the cover's eerie nursery-rhyme caption, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star… How I Wonder What You Are!", makes it clear something is deeply, unsettlingly off about this scene. Joe Kubert's cover work is quietly masterful here, using stark contrasts and restrained detail to turn a childhood rhyme into something genuinely chilling. DC's long-running horror anthology delivered eight new pages of story and art with this 1980 issue, and with interior work from Al Case and John Calnan, there's every reason to pick this one up.