Animal Man #86

Subtitled "The Princess, The Shaman King, and The Spider Queen," this August 1995 Vertigo entry in Jerry Prosser, Fred Harper, and Jason Temujin's run on Animal Man carries a distinctly unsettling mood. The cover by Rick Berry and Hannibal King presents a dreamlike, fractured composition — a skeletal, red-haired figure glimpsed within a broken mirror or portal, surrounded by abstract geometric forms, while a clawed golden hand reaches forward from the foreground. It's the kind of psychedelic, mythically charged imagery that defined Vertigo at its most adventurous in the mid-1990s.