Manhunter #22

Manhunter #22 brings Kate Spencer's relentless, scrappy energy front and center in this July 2006 installment of Marc Andreyko's run. Shawn Martinbrough's cover depicts Kate in her red armor, fighting staff crackling with energy, locked in fierce combat against a hulking mechanical adversary amid a chaos of shattering monitors and sparking machinery — a vivid snapshot of the "Ghost in the Machine" arc. With Javier Pina and Fernando Blanco on interior art, this is exactly the kind of high-stakes, tech-fueled confrontation that made this series a genuinely rewarding corner of the DC universe.