Ghost Rider #39

Ghost Rider #39 finds the flame-skulled hero surrounded and outnumbered, as a white-costumed commander orders a green-uniformed suicide squad to swarm him near the edge of a fiery abyss — and the cover by Bob Budiansky and Bob Wiacek makes every desperate, churning moment feel visceral. The tagline "The Ghost Rider Must Die!" sets a suitably grim tone for Michael Fleisher's script, brought to life inside by Don Perlin's art. It's a tense, kinetic 1979 Marvel package that delivers exactly what the title "Into the Abyss!" promises.