Daring Escapes #3

The cover by Alan Weiss sets up a genuinely harrowing scenario: a muscular escape artist is submerged upside-down inside a bolted metal water torture cell, while a massive, snarling sea-creature looms overhead with claws and jaws poised to strike. The cover copy bills this as the "Self-Liberator's" greatest challenge yet — and with that monster thrown into the mix, it's hard to argue otherwise. Daring Escapes #3 from Image's 1998 lineup delivers the kind of visceral, high-stakes imagery that makes you want to flip straight to the first page.