The Creeper #4

The cover of this 1998 DC series entry says it all: a neatly dressed, bespectacled man — Jack Ryder, the Creeper's human half — is ensnared by skeletal, vine-like tendrils as the Creeper's ghoulish, wild-haired visage looms enormous and menacing above him, the whole image bathed in a deep crimson that gives it a genuinely unsettling quality. Penciled and inked by Shawn Martinbrough and Sal Buscema, the composition captures the central tension of the character — a man at war with the supernatural identity literally growing out of him. With the tagline "The Past Catches Up With the Creeper" and the story title "Past Tension," issue #4 promises a reckoning between Ryder and the darker half he can't shake.