Ghost Rider #0.1

Marvel's 2011 Marvel.1 initiative offered readers a perfect on-ramp to ongoing series, and this Ghost Rider #0.1 — "Give Up the Ghost" by Rob Williams, Matthew Clark, Sean Parsons, and Robert Schwager — is a compelling place to start. Arturo Lozzi's cover delivers the Spirit of Vengeance in full fury: a flaming-skulled Ghost Rider astride a massive motorcycle, chain in hand, surrounded by bursting hellfire and debris, with a second blazing skull looming ominously in the background. It's a striking image that captures exactly what this character is all about — supernatural menace, raw power, and the open road consuming itself in flame.