The Wanderers #4

The tagline says it all — "Sins of the past come back to haunt…" — and Dave Hoover and Robert Campanella's cover for this September 1988 issue drives the point home with unsettling flair. A yellow-skinned, bald figure in a striking red-and-gold costume sits at center, mouth open in anguish or outcry, while six disembodied heads of the Wanderers float in the blue radiant background around him, each wearing expressions of alarm, grief, or defiance. Doug Moench, Hoover, and Campanella bring a genuinely eerie psychological weight to this fourth issue, making it a compelling snapshot of a team haunted by whatever reckoning awaits them in "The Short Path to Hell.