Ghost Rider #10

Javier Saltares's cover for this February 1991 issue puts Ghost Rider front and center — flaming skull blazing white-hot, spiked leather jacket, chain draped across his chest, studded gauntlets clenched — striding forward out of a pitch-black void ringed with dripping red zodiac symbols that give the whole image an eerie, occult charge. The "Stars of Blood" story title and that unsettling celestial iconography suggest Howard Mackie is steering the Spirit of Vengeance into dark mystical territory. A striking single-figure composition that captures exactly why this era of Ghost Rider had readers coming back every month.