Hellstorm: Prince of Lies #5

Michael Bair's cover for this 1993 Marvel series puts Hellstorm front and center — bare-chested, a pentagram marking his torso, lunging forward with fierce intensity as a glowing trident blazes with hellfire beside him. Looming at his back is a hulking, blue-skinned, skull-faced figure wrapped in bandages, arms raised and radiating an ominous supernatural energy. It's a vivid snapshot of the dark, occult-drenched world Rafael Nieves and Len Kaminski are building in "The Damnation Game," and Bair's raw, kinetic linework makes issue #5 feel like the tension is about to break wide open.