The Power of SHAZAM! #45

When Black Adam goes unleashed, it takes the entire JLA to respond — and this January 1999 cover by Jerry Ordway makes that clash feel genuinely urgent. The scene depicts Black Adam in fierce combat against a wave of DC's finest, with Wonder Woman, a Green Lantern, the Martian Manhunter, and others pressing the attack across what appears to be a ship's deck in a dynamic, kinetic composition. "Friends in High Places" promises a story with serious stakes, and Ordway's fluid linework — inked here with precision by Dick Giordano — gives the confrontation both weight and momentum.