Hulk: Gray #6

The finale of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's acclaimed Hulk: Gray miniseries arrives with a cover that is quietly arresting — an extreme close-up of the Hulk's single green eye, rendered in striking detail against a cool, desaturated palette, filling nearly the entire image with raw, searching emotion. Tim Sale's composition strips away all the usual bombast of a Hulk cover in favor of something almost haunting, letting that solitary eye carry the full weight of the story's introspective tone. With "Book Six: F Is for Father" as the chapter title, this 2004 Marvel Knights issue promises a deeply personal conclusion to one of the more thoughtful takes on Bruce Banner's earliest days as the Hulk.