Daredevil: Dark Nights #5

David Lapham's "Dark Nights" arc takes a harrowing turn in this 2013 installment, with Klaus Janson's cover painting a vivid picture of Daredevil swinging beneath a massive bridge while clutching a young blonde child — all while a hulking, grey-skinned brute looms above them, gripping the bridge's steel framework with one enormous hand and hoisting a vehicle overhead with the other. The sheer scale of that threat against the Man Without Fear's determined effort to protect an innocent makes for a genuinely gripping image. Lee Loughridge's colors pull it all together, setting the bright red of Daredevil's suit against the muted steel and sky in a way that keeps your eye moving across every tense detail.