Marvel Spotlight #9

From 1973, this Marvel Spotlight issue puts Ghost Rider front and center as "the most supernatural hero of all," and Mike Ploog's cover delivers on that promise with full-throttle energy. The flaming-skulled biker tears through the chaos on his motorcycle, surrounded by savage warriors and a massive, terrifying serpent rearing up behind him, while a blonde woman appears to be at the center of the struggle — the cover copy teasing "The Bride of the Serpent God!" makes that conflict unmistakably clear. With Gary Friedrich writing and Tom Sutton on interior art, this is a vivid slice of Marvel's early-'70s supernatural adventuring at its most dramatic.