Hellblazer #24

A man's terror-stricken face fills the foreground, his raised hand splattered with blood, while above him a Polaroid snapshot reveals a sinister, insect-headed figure in a long coat standing over a darkened house — the unsettling imagery of "The Family Man" rendered with painterly dread by cover artist Kent Williams. Jamie Delano and Ron Tiner bring their signature atmospheric menace to this November 1989 installment of DC's mature-readers series, and the layered composition — photographs within photographs, crimson stains bleeding across the darkness — makes the threat feel intimate and deeply wrong. If you've been following Constantine's world of occult dread, this cover alone signals that issue #24 is not one to pass over.