Suicide Squad #7

Frank Rock dominates this May 2002 cover in close-up, steely-eyed and weathered, a lit match clenched between his teeth as flame curls dramatically upward — all while he holds a postcard reading "Greetings from Kooey Kooey Kooey" depicting an explosion. The tagline says it all: he didn't start this war, but he's going to finish it, and that quiet, dangerous confidence radiates from every line of Paco Medina and Joe Sanchez's cover work. With Keith Giffen writing "Act of War," this issue promises the kind of gritty, purposeful tension that makes Suicide Squad such a compelling corner of the DC universe.