Doctor Strange #72

Doctor Strange #72 brings the Sorcerer Supreme face-to-face with a massive, otherworldly creature — all snapping beak, swirling magenta energy, and coiling green tentacles — as Strange thrusts a glowing hand directly into its maw while a blonde woman dangles helplessly upside-down in its grip above him. Mark Badger's cover crackles with urgency, pitting Strange's orange-robed determination against a beast that fills the entire frame with writhing, alien menace. With Roger Stern writing and Paul Smith on interiors, this 1985 chapter titled "Secret Origin" promises the kind of mystical storytelling the series does best.