Steel #31

A monstrous, spike-armored creature with glowing red eyes and a gaping maw dominates this October 1996 cover, its clawed grip locked around Steel as the armored hero struggles in its grasp. Cover artists Phil Gosier and Rich Faber pack the image with raw menace — the creature's snarling reptilian face looming over a barely-upright Steel makes the story title "Possessed" feel immediately, viscerally apt. Louise Simonson's run continues to push Steel into genuinely unsettling territory, and this issue looks like no exception.