Firestorm the Nuclear Man #90

Kicking off "The Elemental War" four-part saga, this October 1989 issue drops readers right into the conflict as Firestorm — his flaming hair and fiery trail blazing across the cover — hurtles forward against an enormous, ghostly elemental face looming in swirling blue-grey vapors behind him. Tom Mandrake's cover work captures a striking sense of scale and urgency, with that streak of orange and red flame cutting a bold diagonal against the cool, spectral presence threatening to engulf everything in its path. "Force of Nature" sounds like exactly the right title for an issue that promises cosmic-scale elemental conflict at its finest.