Supergirl #23

Kara Zor-El blazes across a star-filled cosmos on this striking January 2008 cover, her body engulfed in roaring flames while her expression twists between anguish and fierce determination — the "S" shield on her chest burning bright even as the fire threatens to consume her entirely. Drew Johnson and Ray Snyder craft a vivid sense of raw, uncontrolled power, with swirling tendrils of flame framing Supergirl against a deep space backdrop dotted with distant planets. With Kelley Puckett writing "Tesseract," this issue promises a story as intense as its scorching cover suggests.