Superman: The Man of Steel #61

Superman lets loose with full-force heat vision on this striking October 1996 cover by Jon Bogdanove and Dennis Janke, the Man of Steel straining with barely contained intensity as ghostly giant faces loom in the icy background of what the title banner calls the Fortress. Louise Simonson, Bogdanove, and Janke bring a palpable sense of escalating tension — whatever has pushed Superman to this point, the cover promises something genuinely unsettling brewing inside these frozen walls. "Fury in the Fortress" is a hard tagline to walk past without picking up the issue.