Night Thrasher #14

Night Thrasher's imposing red-and-grey masked face dominates the foreground of this 1994 Marvel entry, while a fierce three-way confrontation erupts behind him — a dark-armored figure squares off against a long-haired combatant in a coat and a blue-costumed warrior woman, all wreathed in churning flames that give the "Slow Burn" cover its simmering tension. The "Lost in the Shadows Part Two" banner signals this is the middle chapter of a multi-issue arc, with cover pencils by David Boller lending the scene a raw, kinetic energy. Dan Slott scripts the interior story "Inner Fires," with Guy Dorian on art — a solid creative team working one of Marvel's more street-level heroes at his mid-'90s peak.