Names of Magic #1

A young boy with round glasses stares out from the lower half of this haunting Vertigo cover by John Bolton, his oversized face emerging dreamlike beneath a torn-paper reveal of a brooding, shadowy house — an image that perfectly captures the tension between ordinary childhood and something far stranger lurking just above. Chapter One: "Invocation" opens this 2001 DC/Vertigo series with a premise that feels both grounded and genuinely uncanny. With Dylan Horrocks writing and Richard Case on interior art, this is a promising start for readers drawn to atmospheric, mature-readers fantasy.