Superman: The Man of Steel #41

The cover of this 1995 DC issue sets a genuinely unsettling tone: Superman lunges forward urgently while below him a red-eyed vampire woman looms over a prone, vulnerable blonde victim. The mirror-reversed "LOVE BITES!" tagline adds a clever visual twist that matches the story's title, "Blood Ties," hinting at a supernatural threat that even the Man of Steel seems pressed to confront in time. Cover pencils by Jon Bogdanove and inks by Dennis Janke give the scene a kinetic, shadowy energy that makes this L. Simonson–penned chapter of Superman: The Man of Steel a striking entry in the run.