Ghost Rider #80

This late-1996 issue of Ghost Rider's long-running series pits the flame-skulled Spirit of Vengeance against a surprising mythological threat, as the cover's bold tagline — "Attack of the Valkyrie!" — makes unmistakably clear. The cover by Salvador Larroca, inked by Art Thibert and Jaime Mendoza, shows a massively armored Ghost Rider looming in the foreground, his skeletal face wreathed in fire, while a fierce blonde Valkyrie bearing a raised sword charges in behind him. It's a vivid, high-energy visual that captures the unlikely collision of supernatural street-level grit and Norse warrior mythology that defined Marvel's mid-nineties ambitions.