Savage Dragon #81

The tagline says it all — "Up From the Depths!" — and the cover delivers on that promise with a massive, jagged-toothed sea creature surging upward while a green-skinned Dragon scrambles desperately at the water's surface, dwarfed by the beast's gaping maw. Erik Larsen's cover art captures a genuinely unsettling sense of scale, with the creature's enormous clawed limbs framing the scene like pillars of doom. November 2000's issue #81 sets a thrilling underwater-tinged stage for the story within, "The Land Down Under!