Iron Man #5

Iron Man comes hurtling straight at the reader on this cover by Sean Chen and Sean Parsons, red-and-gold armor crackling with golden energy as massive, mechanical arms — clearly belonging to some formidable opponent — grapple him amid a storm of fire, debris, and glowing molten rock. The fiery orange background and the story title "Into the Fire" set an appropriately scorching mood for this June 1998 issue from the Busiek-Chen era of The Invincible Iron Man. It's a kinetic, fists-and-flames composition that captures the stripped-down, hard-hitting spirit this creative team brought to Tony Stark's world.