Blade: The Vampire-Hunter #9

The cover of this March 1995 Marvel issue poses a gripping question right on its face: "When the Yantzi attack, who will Blade betray — his friends or himself?" Douglas Wheatley's cover art depicts a menacing blond figure in a green jacket gripping Blade by the throat while brandishing a sword, as explosions erupt in the background and a red-haired woman in a purple outfit scrambles desperately in the foreground. It's a tense, kinetic composition that sets up the pressures facing Marvel's vampire-hunter heading into "Dead on Arrival.