Blade: The Vampire-Hunter #8

The gold-background cover of this February 1995 Marvel issue says it all: Morbius, fangs bared and cape flaring in a burst of purple energy, looms over a steely, sword-wielding Blade — and the title's own question mark ("The Vampire-Hunter?") hints that this confrontation runs deeper than a simple clash. Douglas Wheatley's cover pencils give both figures a raw, kinetic presence, with Blade crouching low and ready while Morbius lunges forward with unsettling ferocity. Ian Edginton and Douglas Wheatley's "Rites & Passages" promises the kind of monster-versus-hunter tension that made this mid-'90s series a genuinely compelling corner of Marvel's supernatural world.