Ghost Rider #53

Part of Marvel's Midnight Sons line, Ghost Rider #53 from 1994 delivers a charged confrontation right on its cover — the flaming-skulled Ghost Rider, chain in hand, squares off against the pale, feral Blackout, who lunges forward with a snarling menace that matches the tagline "Out of the Shadows Comes Blackout!" Salvador Larroca's pencils and Sergio Melia's inks give both figures a raw, kinetic energy, with Ghost Rider's hellfire blazing dramatically behind him. With Howard Mackie scripting a story titled "Reunions," this is a solid chapter in one of Marvel's darker corners of the early '90s.