Hellblazer #13

Dave McKean's haunting cover for Hellblazer #13 frames a solitary, trench-coated figure — unmistakably John Constantine — gazing out across a burning amber landscape, the image rendered as though it were a photograph pinned against a weathered surface scattered with smooth stones, hair, and a small shell. The layered, collage-like composition gives the whole thing an unsettling, dreamlike quality perfectly suited to a story titled "On the Beach." Jamie Delano scripts, with art by Richard Piers Rayner and inks by Mark Buckingham, making this 1988 issue a compelling chapter in one of DC's most atmospheric mature-readers series.