Catwoman #34

Catwoman finds herself in desperate straits on Jim Balent's striking cover for issue #34 — she's submerged underwater, her face illuminated in sickly yellows and greens, bubbles escaping as razor-sharp claws slash across the image and small frogs drift eerily through the aquatic gloom around her. Chuck Dixon's story, "The Razor's Edge," promises exactly the kind of high-stakes tension this suffocating image suggests. A genuinely unsettling mid-1990s DC cover that pulls you in before you've even opened the book.