Curse of the Spawn #3

Curse of the Spawn #3 from 1996 plunges readers into the darkest corners of Image's hellish mythology with a cover that commands attention — a massive, corrupted creature rendered in rotting flesh tones and sickly green supernatural energy, its enormous clawed hands and hulking winged form filling the frame with suffocating menace. Cover pencils by Dwayne Turner and inks by Danny Miki bring an extraordinary level of grotesque detail to every sinew and shadow, making this issue's "Corpse Candles" story feel unmistakably ominous before you've even cracked the spine. With Alan McElroy scripting and a full art team delivering this level of brooding intensity, this series was clearly committed to pushing the Spawn universe into genuinely unsettling territory.