American Vampire 1976 #9

Rafael Albuquerque's cover for this penultimate chapter sets the mood perfectly — a mohawked figure in a leather jacket leans coolly against a classic American car, while a shirtless, bat-wielding adversary faces him down against a moody New York City skyline rendered in stark reds and cream. The tagline "Bite Them Back" splashed across the bottom makes clear that Scott Snyder and Albuquerque's blood-soaked, era-drenched saga is heading toward a reckoning. With Dave McCaig's two-tone palette giving everything the feel of a grindhouse film poster, American Vampire 1976 #9 carries all the tension you'd expect from a story titled "Farewell, Part One.