Morbius: The Living Vampire #9

The cover by Ron Wagner and Mike Witherby sets a suitably macabre stage for this 1993 Marvel horror title — Morbius sits enthroned on a mountain of skulls alongside a fierce blonde woman in black, while the enormous leering face of Nightmare looms behind them and a crowd of shadowy figures writhes in the background. The tagline "King of the Vampires!" hints at grand, unsettling ambitions for the Living Vampire, and his face-off against the dream-realm's resident terror promises some genuinely eerie supernatural drama. With "Dreaming Realities" as the story title and a creative team including writer Gregory Wright and artist Ron Wagner, this issue leans hard into Morbius's darker corner of the Marvel Universe.