The Power of SHAZAM! #31

Part of DC's 1997 "Genesis" crossover event, this issue poses a striking question right on its cover: "If thy gods forsake thee…" — and the image makes that tension viscerally felt. Captain Marvel stands defiant atop a rocky peak, fist raised against a fiery crimson sky, while the towering faces of the ancient gods who grant him his power loom all around him in the turbulent background. Jerry Ordway's cover art, both penciled and inked by Ordway himself, captures a hero caught between mortal resolve and divine uncertainty in a way that's genuinely hard to look away from.