Avengers Forever #5

The fifth chapter of this 12-part Marvel epic brings together a striking assembly of Avengers across time, rendered here by cover artists Carlos Pacheco and Jesús Merino. Captain Mar-Vell charges front and center with a blazing fist, flanked by a blue-armored figure on the left and a cosmic, star-flecked hero behind him, while the Wasp darts above the fray — all tumbling through a collage of fragmented dates and calendar pages that perfectly captures the series' time-spanning premise. Written by Kurt Busiek and Roger Stern, "Past Imperfect… Future Tense!" promises the kind of ambitious, history-hopping storytelling that made Avengers Forever one of 1999's most ambitious Marvel miniseries.