Hellblazer #115

This July 1997 DC/Vertigo entry in the long-running Hellblazer series offers one of the more quietly unsettling cover images in the run — a pair of dark-gloved hands forming a heart shape around two faces, a man and a woman bathed in deep red, with blood dripping ominously below. Sean Phillips's cover art turns a romantic gesture into something genuinely threatening, perfectly capturing the uneasy tension that defines John Constantine's world. Written by Paul Jenkins with interior art by Warren Pleece, issue #115 promises that whatever "In the Red Corner" has in store, it won't be a simple love story.