Ms. Marvel #2

Ms. Marvel #2 drops Carol Danvers into a breathtaking mid-air struggle, with a massive, winged reptilian creature wrapping its powerful limbs around her as churning water rages below — a cover by Frank Cho that crackles with kinetic ferocity. Carol fights back with fierce determination, her black-and-gold costume vivid against the creature's dark, muscular form. Published in 2006 and part of Marvel's Civil War era, this issue signals that Brian Reed and Roberto de la Torre's run on Carol Danvers is off to a wildly ambitious start.