Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #18

Part five of "The Vampiric Verses" reaches its conclusion here, and the cover by Butch Guice makes the stakes unmistakably clear: a massive, looming Varnae — billed as "Deadlier Than Dracula… The First Lord of Vampires" — towers over a determined Dr. Strange, cape billowing and mystic gauntlet raised in defiance. In the background, a frightened woman recoils from a crouching vampiric figure amid crumbling ruins, setting a genuinely eerie tone. It's a vivid, atmospheric finish to a five-part supernatural saga, with Roy Thomas, Dann Thomas, and Jackson Guice delivering one of 1990's more compelling corners of the Marvel Universe.