Superman / Batman #12

The cover of Superman/Batman #12 says it all — "The Supergirl from Apokolips!" blazes across the bottom as a fierce, battle-ready young blonde woman stands front and center, draped in golden wing-like garments and armored boots, her defiant smirk suggesting she's no one's captive. Looming behind her is a massive, hulking dark figure whose sheer scale makes the contrast between the two all the more striking. Michael Turner's linework, colored by Peter Steigerwald's fiery crimson backdrop, gives this 2004 chapter of Jeph Loeb's six-part "Supergirl from Krypton" arc a genuinely menacing, otherworldly atmosphere that pulls you straight in.