Micronauts #19

A vivid sense of peril leaps off this 1986 Marvel cover as a yellow-and-orange-clad blonde woman tumbles helplessly into roiling flames, arms outstretched in panic — all while a menacing dark armored figure looms close behind her. The blurb "Into… The Prometheus Pit!" sets a dramatic mythological tone perfectly suited to The Micronauts: The New Voyages. Keith Pollard's cover art delivers a striking image of danger and motion that makes issue #19 of Peter B. Gillis's run genuinely hard to set back down on the shelf.