Hellblazer #47

A glowing, spectral white figure dominates the center of a crowded, warmly lit pub in Tom Canty's haunting cover for Hellblazer #47 — an image that perfectly evokes the title "The Pub Where I Was Born" without giving a single thing away. The contrast between the luminous, almost feathery apparition and the oblivious patrons drinking around it creates an atmosphere that is equal parts eerie and deeply human. Garth Ennis was still early in his celebrated Hellblazer run in November 1991, and this issue — with Will Simpson and Stan Woch handling interior art — already signals the series' knack for finding the supernatural lurking in the most ordinary British settings.