Ghost Rider #18

Ghost Rider charges straight at the reader on his flaming motorcycle, skull ablaze, with Spider-Man leaping alongside him and the rocky bulk of the Thing looming to the left — while Hercules and the Black Widow are caught in the chaos below, all of it framed by Ghost Rider's fierce declaration: "For an innocent girl to live — you fools must die!" This 1976 cover, penciled by Rich Buckler and John Romita with inks by Dan Adkins and John Romita, packs an extraordinary roster of Marvel heroes into a single, kinetic image that raises the stakes before you've even cracked the spine. "The Salvation Run!" promises a wild supernatural team-up that makes this issue a genuinely exciting corner of mid-seventies Marvel.