Guy Gardner: Warrior #42

The gender-swapped Gal Gardner dominates this May 1996 cover, striding forward with two massive alien-biomechanical rifles crossed at her chest, winged red armor fused to her frame, and a steely green-eyed glare that dares anyone to get in her way. Skulls and skeletal figures loom in the eerie blue shadows behind her, hinting at the dangerous territory she's carved through. With cover pencils by Joyce Chin and inks by Dan Panosian, this striking image sets a bold, confrontational tone for "A Gender Bender in the Blender" — one of the more memorably offbeat chapters in DC's mid-'90s Warrior run.