Animal Man #69

The painted cover by George Pratt sets a haunting, wintry mood — a lone figure huddles in the snow amid a dark, snow-flecked forest, clutching something close in a posture of grief or desperate protection. That image, paired with the story title "Cold, Cold, Cold," makes this March 1994 Vertigo issue feel unmistakably raw and emotionally charged. Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh were pushing Animal Man into deeply human, unsettling territory, and this cover makes a quiet, arresting case for exactly that.