Ghost Rider #23

Ghost Rider faces a drenching threat in this 1977 Marvel thriller, "Wrath of the Water Wizard!" — and the cover by Jack Kirby, John Romita, and inkers John Verpoorten and Romita makes the danger viscerally clear. The flaming-skulled Ghost Rider roars forward on his motorcycle as a massive, gray-green Water Wizard looms from a crashing waterfall, threatening to extinguish that supernatural hellfire while a red-suited figure looks on from the foreground. It's a striking showdown between fire and water that captures everything energetic about Marvel's supernatural titles of the era.