B.P.R.D.: 1946 #3

The postwar supernatural world of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense comes alive in this 2008 Dark Horse installment, with a cover by Mike Mignola that is quietly unsettling in the best possible way. A pale, long-haired figure draped in dark robes stands at the center, a great white owl perched behind and above like a spectral guardian, while a tangle of grasping red hands reaches up from below — numbered as if cataloguing the damned. Mike Mignola, Joshua Dysart, and Paul Azaceta are doing something genuinely atmospheric with this 1946 chapter, and the cover alone makes a compelling case for picking it up.