Thunderbolts #65

Marvel's "Most Wanted" team takes center stage in this 2002 installment of Thunderbolts, with a cover by Patrick Zircher and Al Vey that thrusts a purple-masked, black-costumed figure directly at the reader — fist outstretched, golden mechanical arms splaying outward behind him in a burst of crackling lightning energy. The dynamic composition, with a second costumed figure lunging in the background, captures exactly the kind of high-stakes tension you'd expect from a team billed as Marvel's most wanted. Writer Fabian Nicieza kicks off the arc "Becoming Heroes" here, and Zircher's kinetic artwork makes clear that whatever these characters are becoming, it won't be quiet.