Hellblazer #7

From the team of writer Jamie Delano and cover artist Dave McKean, this July 1988 issue of John Constantine: Hellblazer presents one of the series' most unsettling images: a weary, trenchcoat-clad Constantine clutches a young child bearing an occult medallion, while an enormous, spectral skull-face looms behind them like a shroud of corrupted light. McKean's painterly, atmospheric cover perfectly captures the series' mature tone — dread seeping through every brushstroke. "Ghosts in the Machine" promises exactly the kind of dark, psychologically charged storytelling that made Hellblazer essential reading in 1988.