Extreme Justice #2

The cover of this March 1995 DC series screams tension: a massively armored, hulking figure looms overhead while two heroes — one in a sleek blue suit firing an energy blast, another in gold-and-brown unleashing a burst of force — scramble below beneath the blunt warning "Ambush!" Marc Campos's cover art captures that sense of heroes caught badly off-guard, outmatched in size but clearly not in nerve. Extreme Justice #2 brings writer Dan Vado and the Campos/Branch creative team together for "High Stakes," and this cover makes a compelling case that the title's premise — a Justice team willing to play rough — is going to be tested right from the start.