Fear Itself: The Fearless #1

The Hunt Is On — and this opening chapter of the twelve-part Fear Itself: The Fearless limited series wastes no time assembling a jaw-dropping collision of Marvel heavyweights. Arthur Adams's cover captures the chaos perfectly: Captain America, shield in hand and knocked back amid rubble and chains, faces a shirtless figure wielding a glowing, lightning-crackling hammer-staff, while the Red Skull, the Thing, the Hulk, a skull-masked armored villain, and a fierce blonde warrior woman crowd the fiery battlefield around them. With Cullen Bunn, Matt Fraction, and Chris Yost co-writing and both Paul Pelletier and Mark Bagley on art duties, this 2011 series brings serious firepower to the post-Fear Itself landscape right from issue one.