Doctor Strange #42

From August 1980, this issue finds the Sorcerer Supreme in a desperate, defiant stance — cape billowing, one finger raised in a spell-casting gesture — as a colossal, flame-wreathed creature of shadow and scale looms over crumbling stone ruins around him. Michael Golden's cover work gives the confrontation a real sense of weight and heat, with the inferno behind the beast casting everything in vivid oranges and yellows that make Strange's blue-and-gold costume pop brilliantly against the chaos. "The Black Mirror!" promises a story worthy of that cover, with Chris Claremont writing and Gene Colan on interior art — a strong creative team for any fan of Marvel's mystical corner of 1980.