Captain America #275, the November 1982 issue of the series, was released during a healthy run by pencil artist Mike Zeck and one of his longtime partners, inker John Beatty. During their tenure on the series there are a number of terrific covers, most of them with more details than this one, and in fact many of them could be singled out in this column.

Green Arrow has made significant progress on his investigation into who is poisoning and killing people with drugged arrows. And where the case leads him, shocks the Emerald Archer. While Oliver’s deep into finding the perpetrator, Roy and Lian are boots on the ground, helping someone that might otherwise be ignored by the system.

Even for a Marvel series and even during a strong period for indy titles, Dakota North #1 arrived in a sea of superheroes. The June 1986 cover-dated debut issue saw private investigator Dakota North hired to protect a fashion designer who had been targeted to prevent the release of his new clothing line. Not a supervillain in sight.

Jack Griffin is becoming more desperate to complete his work and successfully turn himself invisible. When Flora, Cranley, and Kemp start to notice how secretive and strange he’s behaving, Griffin looks for a new way to complete his work without their wary gazes observing him. This leaves Griffin unchecked to take his experiments to a new level.

CiCi, the new graduate of Academy Zero, has been thrown into her first mission, and it is a doozy. She was sent into the field to join the Harbinger team in their battle with Black Sheep. The problem is that Black Sheep proved more dangerous than the Harbingers anticipated, and CiCi is soon facing the villain one on one.

A mysterious visitor to the king’s court conjures up some of the critical scenes of Conan’s life. For those among us who are devoted Conan fans, these pages will recall memories of great stories from prose and comic books past, while at the same time they are entirely accessible and powerful for newer readers.

With private investigator Jack Herriman peering through the venetian blinds, pistol in his other hand, shadowy figure...

Mark Spears Monsters the Monster and the Wolf #1 begins in Antarctica where Clint Abbott is searching for a cure for the werewolf curse. He has traveled to the icy, isolated landscape because a doctor there may have developed a serum that can help him. Unfortunately for Clint, he isn’t the only dangerous individual in the area.

Created by writer-artist-editor Carl Potts, Alien Legion is the continuing story of Nomad Squadron, a unit in the TOPHAN Galactica Union’s multi-species military. It is essentially modeled after the French Foreign Legion, but instead of humans with different nationalities it is populated with a wide array of species – mostly, but not exclusively humanoids – who come with an equally wide array of financial, social, political, and criminal backgrounds from the Union’s member planets.

Valiant Beyond: Bloodshot #2 picks up with our hero learning all the gory details about the origin and curse of vampirism. Following a confrontation with his new nemesis, Bloodshot also sees how the vampires of Tokyo survive, and some of the horrors they have committed.

In 2040, the Event Horizon starship set out on a voyage to Proxima Centauri with the plan of using a Gravity Drive to open a dimensional gateway and jump from one point in space to the next. The first issue introduced the crew and set up their ill-fated jump, now the second issue begins with the crew realizing that they have landed in a hellish landscape. 

Harley Quinn is feeling frustrated because she missed Halloween last year and is desperate to have the best party imaginable. Elvira has just received troubling news about her TV show that has the Mistress of the Dark looking for solutions to her mounting problems. Enter Harley Quinn with an awesomely ridiculous idea.