JLA: Year One #2

The fledgling Justice League of America steps into the spotlight on this Barry Kitson cover, where Flash, Black Canary, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter face a wall of cameras and microphones — the press hungry for answers about Earth's newest super-team. That subtitle, "Media Blitz!", says it all: public perception is shaping up to be just as challenging as any super-villain. Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn's twelve-issue reimagining of the League's origins was one of 1998's most ambitious DC projects, and issue #2 makes clear that assembling heroes is one thing — convincing the world to trust them is another matter entirely.