Superman / Batman #63

Gorilla Grodd dominates this 2009 DC issue with unmistakable menace — his glowing red eyes and bared teeth filling the frame as he clutches what appears to be a combined Superman/Batman emblem torn from its owner. Fragmented caption boxes across the top hint at a world already fallen under Grodd's psychic grip, making the cover feel like a dispatch from a battle already lost. Writers Michael Green and Michael Johnson team with artist Rafael Albuquerque, whose cover linework gives Grodd a raw, almost feral energy that's genuinely hard to look away from.