Spawn: The Dark Ages #22

A single teardrop-shaped vessel dominates this unsettling 2001 cover, its amber glow trapping a grotesque, decayed face that glowers outward with hollow, burning eyes — a striking image rendered by Ashley Wood that feels both ancient and deeply wrong. Spawn: The Dark Ages has always found the horror lurking in the medieval world, and this issue, "The Seeding," with Steve Niles writing and Nat Jones on interior art, promises that dread in abundance. It's the kind of cover that lingers with you long after the book is back on the shelf.