Firestorm the Nuclear Man #86

Part 7 of the 11-part "Janus Directive" crossover event arrives in this 1989 DC issue, and Tom Mandrake's cover captures the heat perfectly — a blazing Firestorm bursts forward at the center, flames roaring from his head, while two imposing figures in purple loom on either side in what feels like a tense confrontation. John Ostrander and Mandrake keep the Nuclear Man's world feeling urgent and dangerous, and with the story titled "Home Fires Burning," the stakes of this sprawling spy-thriller crossover are clearly building toward something significant.