24: Nightfall #3

From IDW's 2007 prequel miniseries comes this tense third issue of 24: Nightfall, with a cover by Joe Corroney that perfectly captures the series' signature urgency. A determined, gun-wielding figure dominates the foreground, while looming behind him is a wanted poster for "Andrei Zen" — bearing a bespectacled man's portrait alongside the chilling word "MURDER" — all framed by a cascade of glowing digital countdown clocks. Writers Mark Haynes and J.C. Vaughn, with art by Jean Diaz, deliver the kind of clock-watching tension that made 24 a phenomenon, and this cover makes it clear the stakes are running dangerously high.