The Punisher #93

Frank Castle stands wide-legged and ready on this August 1994 cover, his skull emblem front and center as he levels a smoking assault rifle with cool, deliberate menace — Bill Sienkiewicz's cover work giving the Punisher a lean, angular intensity that perfectly suits the story title "Killing Streets." The stark white background puts every detail of Castle's combat stance in sharp relief, making it clear this is a man with nowhere to be except exactly where the trouble is. Writer Chuck Dixon and the interior art team of Todd Fox and Enrique Villagrán bring the story to life behind a cover that wastes no words in telling you what kind of issue this is.