Black Panther #27

T'Challa stands front and center on this striking 2001 cover, cape billowing as he raises a spear defiantly against a fiery orange sky — the single word "WAR" looming large behind him says everything about the stakes. Flanking him in ghostly scale are two imposing figures: a scarred, mechanically-altered visage on the left and a stern, sharp-featured face on the right, both suggesting powerful adversaries closing in on Wakanda's king. Sal Velluto's pencils and Bob Almond's inks give the composition a bold, cinematic weight that makes "Sturm und Drang: An Epidemic Insanity" feel like exactly the kind of high-tension chapter the title promises.