Doc Savage #7

The Man of Bronze hits the modern age hard in this 2014 Dynamite issue, with Alex Ross's painterly cover depicting a bronze-skinned Doc Savage engulfed by a frenzied mob of reaching, shouting figures — all while a tablet in the foreground captures the chaos on its screen, complete with a lightning-bolt emblem on the device's case. Ross renders the scene with his signature photorealistic weight, the cool blue tones of the crowd contrasting brilliantly against Doc's warm, gleaming form at the center of the storm. It's a striking image that plants pulp's greatest adventurer squarely in the age of smartphones and viral moments.