Ice Cream Man #45

Subtitled "The Window in the Back of the Apartment," this forty-fifth issue of W. Maxwell Prince's unsettling anthology series wears its Hitchcock influences openly — a wide-eyed figure peers through binoculars into the warm-lit windows of a city apartment building while the grinning Ice Cream Man, bow-tied and capped, looms at his shoulder with those eerie green eyes. Martin Morazzo's painterly cover composition and Chris O'Halloran's moody palette of blues, oranges, and purples make the scene feel equal parts voyeuristic thriller and quiet dread. If this series has taught readers anything by issue forty-five, it's that whoever's watching never quite realizes they're being watched right back.