B.P.R.D.: 1946 #1

Set in the tense, shadow-laden aftermath of World War II, this opening chapter of B.P.R.D.: 1946 drops readers straight into a world where Cold War anxieties and occult dread collide. Mike Mignola's cover — rendered entirely in his own pencils and inks — frames three figures against a striking backdrop of Nazi swastika and Soviet hammer-and-sickle imagery: a gas-masked soldier in black looms behind an American GI and a haggard civilian, with a cruciform shape rising ominously above them all and a shadowy demonic silhouette lurking in the red-drenched background. With Mike Mignola and Joshua Dysart co-writing and Paul Azaceta handling interior art, this 2008 Dark Horse series promises a grim, historically grounded chapter in the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense's long history.