Thunderbolts #72

Against a striking red background, this 2002 Marvel entry in Fabian Nicieza's Thunderbolts run features a fiery armored figure — crackling with molten orange energy and trailing luminous tendrils of flame — posed dramatically before a stark yin-yang symbol split between stark white and deep black. The cover art by Juan Bobillo and Marcelo Sosa gives the image a charged, almost philosophical tension, that duality motif feeling very deliberate given the story title "Becoming Villains 4: Malignant Tumors." With Chris Batista on interior art, this is a visually arresting chapter in a series that never shied away from exploring the blurry line between heroism and villainy.