The Night Force #9

DC's supernatural horror series Night Force reaches its ninth issue with a cover that commands attention — a massive, writhing tentacled creature with glowing eyes dominates the foreground, while the ghostly, contemplative figure of a cloaked man looms large against a blood-red sky, a darkened mansion lurking behind him. Gene Colan's pencils, inked by Bob Smith, capture that unsettling tension between brooding human dread and something far more monstrous. With the tagline promising that these characters became the Night Force "to save mankind," this 1983 installment — subtitled "Beast, Chapter Two: Symbiosis!" — suggests the stakes between man and monster are only growing more entangled.