Sabretooth #1

Mark Texeira's striking cover for this 1993 Marvel miniseries opener says everything you need to know about its subject: Sabretooth's snarling, feral face peers through the jagged letters of his own name against a blood-red field, making the title itself feel like a wound. The sidebar copy promises a story of ambush, survival, and a reckoning with the past — a "Death Hunt" that puts the savage mutant on a quest for his life. With Larry Hama writing and Texeira handling both pencils and inks, Sabretooth #1 arrives with a focused, menacing energy all its own.