Hellblazer #40

Dave McKean and Kent Williams collaborate on a hauntingly arresting cover for this April 1991 issue of Hellblazer, arranging four painterly portrait fragments — shadowed storm clouds, a fiery abstracted face, a pale luminous visage, and a fragmented blue-masked countenance — into a grid that feels less like a comic cover than a museum piece. Jamie Delano's story bears the weighty title "The Magus," and the four faces suggest multiplicity, transformation, and the unsettling overlap of identities that defines Constantine's world. It's a striking example of the mature, art-forward direction DC's Vertigo-adjacent titles were pushing in 1991.