Animal Man #61

Brian Bolland's cover for this 1993 Vertigo entry is a genuinely unsettling close-up: a massive crustacean looms with compound eyes and bristling antennae over a wide-jawed fish, itself bearing a disquieting human eyeball in its gaping mouth — raw nature rendered with a painterly, visceral precision. The "Tooth and Claw" story arc kicks off here under writer Jamie Delano and artist Steve Pugh, promising an Animal Man series that leans hard into the strange, biological unease that made Vertigo's mature-readers line so compelling in 1993. If you enjoy your superhero comics with a side of deep-sea dread, this one's hard to put down before you've even opened it.