Spawn #40

A massively grotesque creature dominates this 1996 Image cover — all slavering jaws, razor claws, and spiked armor — rendered with ferocious energy by cover penciler Tony S. Daniel and inker Kevin Conrad. Spawn's own cape-like tendrils and chains are woven into the chaos, hinting at a brutal confrontation within "Fugitives." It's the kind of visceral, hard-hitting imagery that made Spawn one of the defining series of its era.