Morbius: The Living Vampire #17

Part of Marvel's Midnight Sons line, this January 1994 issue of Morbius: The Living Vampire delivers a cover that pulses with dread — blood drips from the title logo as a snarling, fanged Morbius lunges forward, claws outstretched, while monstrous purple creatures claw at him from all sides and a winged demonic figure looms in the blood-red background. Cover pencils by Isaac Cordova and inks by Bud La Rosa give the image a raw, kinetic energy that perfectly suits a character forever caught between monster and man. With the story titled "Sacrifice and Redemption," this issue promises the kind of dark, emotionally charged stakes that made the Midnight Sons corner of the Marvel Universe so compelling in 1994.