Hellblazer #39

Hellblazer #39 brings Jamie Delano and Steve Pugh's mature-readers series to March 1991 with a cover by Kent Williams that immediately signals something deeply unsettling — two pairs of intertwined, struggling figures rendered in raw, painterly strokes of ochre and bone white, their bodies coiled together in what reads as both conflict and desperate need. The composition is presented twice, mirrored and inverted, giving the whole image an eerie, doubled quality that feels less like a cover and more like a found fragment from some disturbing sketchbook. With a story titled "The Hanged Man," this issue promises the kind of spiritually fraught, psychologically raw storytelling that made Hellblazer essential reading in the early 1990s.