Avengers Assemble #7

Thanos looms enormous across this cover, his Infinity Gauntlet thrust toward the reader with gemstones glinting — and if you look closely, the faces of several Marvel heroes are reflected within those very stones. Mark Bagley and Danny Miki deliver a genuinely unsettling portrait of the Mad Titan against a backdrop of deep space and smoldering planets, his grin radiating absolute confidence. With Brian Michael Bendis writing this 2012 chapter of Avengers Assemble, the stakes couldn't feel higher.