Birds of Prey #90

Birds of Prey #90 arrives in March 2006 with a cover that pulls no punches — Black Canary locked in a fierce, close-quarters confrontation with Deathstroke, whose half-masked face looms menacingly inches from hers, while a gun-wielding figure lurks in the background beneath a bat-signal sky. Writer Gail Simone is deep into "Perfect Pitch Part Five," and the tension Adriana Melo and Will Conrad capture on this cover — Canary screaming defiantly against a villain who outweighs her in raw power — says everything about the high-stakes drama inside. A genuinely gripping chapter in one of DC's most compelling team books of the era.