Marvel Fanfare #5

Marvel Fanfare #5 (November 1982) puts Doctor Strange front and center in a dazzling supernatural clash, his red Cloak of Levitation billowing as crackling bolts of mystical energy erupt across a cityscape backdrop. A red-haired woman in white is caught in the crossfire, recoiling from an eerily glowing green hand that tears through the chaos between them — it's a genuinely striking composition from the cover team of Marshall Rogers (pencils) and P. Craig Russell (inks). With Al Milgrom handling writing, art, and inks on the interior story "To Steal the Sorcerer's Soul!", this premium-format issue delivers exactly the kind of ambitious, visually charged storytelling that made Marvel Fanfare a standout series of its era.