New Gods #15

Two titanic armored figures dominate this striking 1997 DC cover — massive, stone-like forms caught in a crossfire of blazing energy beams — while a tiny, glowing figure hangs vulnerably in the foreground, dwarfed by the cosmic scale around them. The bold tagline "The Source!" promises that Jack Kirby's mythic Fourth World mythology is being pushed to its grandest extremes in "Closing the Ring." Walter Simonson's cover art brings a genuinely epic weight to New Gods #15, making it easy to see why John Byrne's run on these characters felt like a worthy continuation of one of DC's most ambitious concepts.