Sandman #25

Nine ghostly, softly lit photographs of children's faces — some smiling, some obscured, all slightly blurred into an eerie dreamlike grid — set the quietly unsettling tone for this fourth chapter of "Season of Mists." The cover tagline promises that the dead will return and that Charles Rowland will conclude his education, lending the image a haunting weight that feels both intimate and deeply strange. With Neil Gaiman writing, Matt Wagner on interior art, and Dave McKean's evocative photographic cover work, Sandman #25 from April 1991 is a compelling entry in one of comics' most celebrated arcs.