Jack Kirby's Fourth World #10

Darkseid's stone-grey face fills this December 1997 cover almost entirely, his burning orange eyes glaring out with an unsettling, implacable calm — Walter Simonson's cover art renders the lord of Apokolips in striking close-up, every crag and furrow of that ancient, terrible face etched in sharp detail. It's a bold, atmospheric choice that needs no background clutter to communicate menace. John Byrne's Jack Kirby's Fourth World #10 promises an "Aftermath" worthy of that gaze.