Steel #32

Steel braces himself with his hammer-staff as a massive, snarling white-haired brute lunges straight at him on this November 1996 cover — the tagline "Block-Busted!" leaving little doubt that the man of steel has a serious physical threat on his hands. Roger Robinson and Dennis Janke deliver a genuinely dynamic image, with the villain's raw, scarred power contrasting sharply against Steel's armored composure and sweeping red cape. "Herculean Labors" sounds like exactly the right title for a confrontation this imposing.