Superman #207

Part four of Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee, and Scott Williams's "For Tomorrow" arc delivers a cover as unsettling as it is arresting. Jim Lee and Scott Williams depict a battered, grimacing Superman straining forward while a massive, razor-clawed limb looms in the foreground — its jagged talons dwarfing the Man of Steel against a ghastly green backdrop littered with skulls and eerie, half-visible figures. The tension radiating from that image alone makes this 2004 issue a compelling chapter in one of the era's most visually ambitious Superman runs.