Sandman #66

Part ten of Neil Gaiman's ambitious "The Kindly Ones" arc, this 1995 DC Vertigo installment features a haunting Dave McKean cover that dominates with an unsettling, flame-wreathed face rendered in deep crimson and molten hues — a visage that seems to dissolve between flesh and fire against a shadowed, earthy backdrop. The image carries that signature McKean unease, where something recognizably human becomes something altogether stranger. With Marc Hempel on interior art and Gaiman's writing driving this extended mythological thriller toward its culmination, issue #66 is a compelling chapter in one of Vertigo's most ambitious storytelling ventures.