Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive #525

The Kingpin of Wakanda" sets a striking noir tone right from the cover, where Francesco Francavilla presents a looming, cold-eyed Kingpin dominating the background while two formidable women — one in a sleek black-and-white masked costume with a sword, the other in a yellow-and-black outfit wielding a whip — command the foreground. A small silhouette of the Black Panther crouching in the upper corner reminds you whose city this still is. Writer David Liss, artist Shawn Martinbrough, and colorist Felix Serrano bring a gritty, pulp-thriller energy to this 2012 chapter of Marvel's most street-level Panther run.