Deadman #3

The entire cover composition is shaped like a coffin — an immediately arresting design choice for this Vertigo series — with a ghostly, translucent face looming large over a cemetery scene populated by robed figures gathered among dark, twisted trees. John Watkiss brings a painterly, atmospheric quality to the image, blending the ethereal and the earthly in a way that feels genuinely unsettling. Bruce Jones and Watkiss continue their run on Deadman with issue #3, "Dressed to Kill," and this cover alone makes a strong case for why the series earned its mature-readers label.