American Vampire 1976 #6

The penultimate chapter of Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque's decade-hopping horror saga arrives with a cover that's genuinely unsettling in its restraint — two monstrous, wild-eyed vampiric figures rendered in stark black and white against a searing amber background, their hollow eyes and contorted expressions radiating pure dread. Albuquerque's stripped-down, almost woodcut-like linework (colored by Dave McCaig's blazing gold palette) gives the image a raw, visceral quality that feels perfectly matched to the series' gritty 1970s atmosphere. If "Part Six: Fire and Flame" lives up to this cover, readers of DC Black Label's mature horror offerings are in for something memorable.