The Vigilante #23

Two costumed figures burst from a swirl of crackling energy on this striking November 1985 cover — the Vigilante looms large with fists raised overhead while a second armored, gun-wielding figure crouches in the foreground, the whole scene rendered in an electric blue wash that gives it an almost otherworldly charge. Tod Smith's pencils and Rick Magyar's inks deliver a real sense of kinetic tension, making it easy to see why Paul Kupperberg's run on this series kept readers coming back. "...Many Unhappy Returns!" promises the kind of charged confrontation the cover so vividly sets up.