Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such #5

The penultimate chapter of this 1995 Vertigo miniseries closes with a cover that earns its "Mature Readers" label — Timothy Truman's cover art shows a long-haired, scarred Jonah Hex firing point-blank into a swarming mass of fanged, reptilian creatures that crowd in from every angle, knives and claws flying through the air around him. It's a vivid snapshot of Hex at his most outnumbered and defiant, perfectly capturing the weird-Western tone Joe R. Lansdale and the creative team brought to this offbeat corner of the DC universe. Fans of pulpy frontier horror and gritty Vertigo-era storytelling will find this finale setup hard to resist.