Captain America #10

The tagline says it all — "Buried Alive!" — and Andy Kubert and Jesse Delperdang's cover drives that dread home with Captain America and a companion trapped beneath a crushing collapse of debris, struggling amid jagged rubble and darkness in a desperate, claustrophobic scene. This is chapter two of Mark Waid's "American Nightmare" arc, and the sense of mounting peril is palpable right from the image alone. A tense, gripping 1998 installment for anyone following one of Marvel's most enduring heroes at his most vulnerable.