Tom Strong #10

From America's Best Comics, this November 2000 issue of Tom Strong takes a decidedly eerie turn with a story titled "Tom Strong and His Phantom Autogyro." Gary Gianni's cover art is a moody marvel — a powerfully built Tom Strong pilots his open-cockpit autogyro through a twilight-blue sky, while ghostly, spectral figures claw and loom out of the shadows around him, reaching up from below and swirling at his flanks. The atmospheric blue palette and Gianni's intricate linework give the whole image a pulp-horror tension that sets this issue apart from the series' usual adventure fare.