Hellblazer #20

This 1989 installment of Jamie Delano's run on Hellblazer arrives at part seven of "The Fear Machine" arc, subtitled "Betrayal" — a title that hangs over Dave McKean's haunting cover like a cold shadow. McKean renders a ghostly, layered scene of a solitary figure observed through what appears to be a box or confined space, with pale shafts of light cutting through murky blues and greens to illuminate a second, smaller figure huddled within — an image that speaks quietly but powerfully to isolation and vulnerability. With Mark Buckingham and Alfredo Alcala handling interior art, this mature-readers chapter promises the atmospheric unease that made Hellblazer one of DC's most compelling reads of its era.