Blue Beetle #2

Blue Beetle dives headlong into danger on this 1986 DC cover, where Paris Cullins and Bruce Patterson pit the blue-clad hero against the flame-wreathed fists of Firefist, the Incendiary Man — a villain whose massive, fire-engulfed gauntlet dominates the image in an unmistakable show of destructive force. The cover's blazing orange backdrop and the hero's determined grimace capture the heat of a confrontation billed right on the cover as their "final conflagration." Len Wein's scripting is also teased with the intriguing corner question — "Who are the Lords of the Ultra Realm?" — promising this issue delivers more than just pyrotechnics.