The Black Lamb #1

DC's Helix imprint launched this six-part series in November 1996 with a cover by Timothy Truman that immediately sets a dark, otherworldly tone — a cloaked, snarling warrior bearing a staff and sporting vicious red clawed hands crouches amid alien, organic-looking terrain beneath a full moon swarming with bats. The heart emblem on the figure's armor and the wild white hair give this stranger a haunted, almost feral presence that feels perfectly at home in Helix's mature-readers corner of the DC universe. With Truman handling writing, art, and inks alongside colorist Sam Parsons, The Black Lamb arrives as a fully realized creative vision from the very first page.