The New Titans #126

Part four of the "Meltdown" storyline, this 1995 DC issue drops readers right into the vertigo-inducing cover by William Rosado and Will Blyberg — a blue-and-gold costumed figure plummets helplessly between towering city skyscrapers, bound with rope and trailing arrows, the urban skyline stretching dizzyingly below. The sense of freefall and peril is immediate and visceral, making it hard not to want to know how this situation possibly ends. With Dale Hrebik writing and Rick Mays on art, The New Titans #126 carries the "Going Home" story forward with this striking, high-altitude image setting the stakes.