Flash #204

The Scarlet Speedster is in serious trouble on Alberto Dose's striking cover for Flash #204 — encased from the waist down in a crackling block of ice, with frost creeping up his costume and icicles dripping from his arms as he strains desperately against his frozen prison. The cover tagline says it all: "Up Against a Cold-Blooded Killer," and the looming shadowy figure visible behind the Flash makes the threat feel immediate and very real. Writer Geoff Johns and artist Alberto Dose deliver a 2004 chapter — "Ignition, Part IV: Cold Reality" — that promises exactly the kind of elemental, high-stakes tension this cover so vividly captures.