The Power of SHAZAM! #27

A crackling surge of multicolored lightning dominates this June 1997 cover, as Captain Marvel is shown reeling backward, arms outstretched, caught in a wild burst of energy. Looming large in the foreground, a wide-eyed woman screams in apparent terror, her expression selling the urgency of that bold headline — "Time's Up!" — with genuine dramatic weight. Jerry Ordway's painted cover art gives the whole scene a vivid, kinetic intensity that makes this installment of The Power of Shazam! hard to pass up.