Bite Club: Vampire Crime Unit #4

From Vertigo's gritty supernatural crime series, this September 2006 issue puts a terrified man front and center — his mouth open in a scream, a clawed hand pressing against his face as a swarm of bats fills the moonlit sky behind him. Howard Chaykin's cover art captures the raw panic of someone utterly at the mercy of something far beyond human, and it's a genuinely unsettling image that sets the tone perfectly for "No Secrets." Writers Chaykin and David Tischman, with interior art by David Hahn, continue to blend vampire mythology with hard-boiled crime in a way that Vertigo made its own.