Batman: Jekyll & Hyde #4

Four issues into Paul Jenkins and Sean Phillips's six-part miniseries, this September 2005 entry turns up the heat — literally. Sean Phillips's cover is dominated by a striking split-faced figure, one side disturbingly decayed and green-tinged, the other unnervingly human, crouching amid vivid orange flames beneath the tagline "Burning Hatred." Above the inferno, a chained Batman looks on from the shadows, suggesting the Dark Knight is far from in control of events. It's a visceral, unsettling image that captures the Jekyll-and-Hyde duality at the heart of this series with real artistic confidence.