Captain America #10

Part of Marvel's 2005 House of M crossover event, this issue finds an aged, civilian-clothed man at the forefront — clutching the familiar scale-mail of Captain America's uniform against his chest with quiet gravity, surrounded by scattered newspaper headlines. Behind him, a montage of memories surges in red-washed imagery: a defiant Captain America battling beneath a torn Nazi flag, an American flag waving through smoke, and a rocket launching into the sky. Ed Brubaker and Lee Weeks frame the cover as a meditation on a hero's legacy, the weight of history pressing down on a weathered face that has clearly seen it all.