Justice League Europe #16

A massive, armored figure dominates this July 1990 cover, its reflective chest plate revealing the battered forms of the Justice League Europe team scattered across its surface — a striking visual that says everything about the threat level on display. Around the edges, several costumed figures react in varying states of alarm and defiance against a fiery, chaotic backdrop, selling the promise of "Terminated…with Extreme Prejudice!" with real conviction. Giffen, DeMatteis, and Sears were firing on all cylinders during this era, and cover pencils by Bart Sears make issue #16 a genuinely arresting entry in "The Extremist Vector" storyline.