The Butcher #4

The cover of this 1990 DC mature-readers series delivers a genuinely striking image: a massive, monstrous red figure with fanged jaws looms against a night sky crackling with jagged lightning, a full moon glowing behind him as a passenger jet streaks through the chaos below. Shea Anton Pensa's cover art captures a real sense of overwhelming, supernatural scale — this creature doesn't just threaten the aircraft, it seems to fill the sky itself. Mike Baron and Shea Anton Pensa's collaboration on The Butcher was clearly swinging for something raw and visceral, and issue #4 wears that ambition right on its cover.