Fury: Peacemaker #5

The penultimate chapter of this Marvel Knights limited series finds Nick Fury rendered in striking close-up on Steve Dillon's cover — steel-helmeted, cigar in hand, his weathered face lit by the orange glow of a burning town, with soldiers moving through the chaos and aircraft visible against a darkening sky. It's a quietly intense image that captures the grim weight Garth Ennis brings to his World War II storytelling, with Robertson and Ramos handling interior art. Five issues in, Fury: Peacemaker has built a reputation as one of the more grounded, unsentimental war comics Marvel published in 2006.