Marvel Knights #4

Daredevil leaps into the fray aboard what appears to be a massive vessel, poised over a tangle of grey-skinned, green-eyed armed figures while a red-haired woman fights for her footing among them — it's a gripping, kinetic image that sets a nautical-action tone perfectly suited to a story titled "In the Belly of Poseidon." Alberto Ponticelli's cover work captures the claustrophobic tension of heroes outnumbered, with the Punisher's grim face visible among the press of bodies adding another layer of menace to the scene. This 2002 Marvel Knights chapter looks like street-level heroism pushed to its absolute limits.