Superman / Batman #64

Scott Kolins delivers a striking cover for this 2009 installment of the World's Finest team-up series, depicting a grim-faced Superman in the foreground — clenching his fists amid shards of shattered debris — while a looming Batman mask dominates the background against a sickly green glow. The tension between the two figures, one in shadow and one in sharp relief, sets a genuinely unsettling tone for Joe Casey's "Prelude to the Big Noise." It's the kind of cover composition that makes you flip it over immediately to find out what's gone wrong between these two.