Marvel Comics Presents #45

Marvel Comics Presents #45 brings together a striking lineup of Marvel heroes on a Kevin O'Neill cover that practically leaps off the page. Wolverine dominates the foreground in his classic brown-and-tan costume, claws fully extended and snarling with intensity, while Wonder Man, Thor, Iron Man, and the Wasp round out the assembled cast behind him. The story title "Shadow Birth!" and the cover blurb promising Wonder Man's transformation into a mad god — with the Avengers scrambling to stop him — make this 1990 anthology an appealing package, with interior art by Javier Saltares and a script by Michael Higgins delivering the eighth chapter of an ongoing Wolverine saga.