Hellblazer #2

The second issue of DC's mature-readers series arrives in February 1988 with a striking Dave McKean cover that sets the mood perfectly: a bare-chested figure in a wide-brimmed hat and open coat looms beside tropical foliage, while a silhouetted man smoking a cigarette is reflected in a window bearing the word "Midnite's," all surrounded by vivid, scattered geometric shapes against a manuscript-textured background. Jamie Delano and John Ridgway continue their collaboration on "A Feast of Friends," promising the kind of dark, street-level supernatural storytelling that made this series a genuinely different voice in late-'80s comics. McKean's painterly cover alone makes this one hard to put down before you've even opened it.