Punisher: Red X-Mas #1

Frank Castle has never looked more unsettling in a Santa suit — standing grim-faced in a snowy cityscape, armed and wearing the Punisher skull on his chest, this one-shot from writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray makes the holiday season feel distinctly dangerous. Mark Texeira's cover art (inked by Texeira himself, with colors by Raúl Treviño) bathes the scene in cold night light, the falling snow and neon-lit taxi behind Castle adding an eerie festive atmosphere to an otherwise thoroughly menacing figure. A 2005 Marvel Knights one-shot that earns its PSR+ rating before you even open the cover.