Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja #16

The final issue of Marvel's Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja goes out with a jolt — the cover, penciled by Ron Wagner and inked by Bob McLeod, fills the frame with a silver-haired figure whose calm, cold expression contrasts sharply with the wild-eyed, grinning character leveling a gun barrel directly at the reader, a smiley-face button glinting nearby. The chilling speech bubble — "Go ahead and shoot! Don't worry… he's already dead!" — sets an unsettling, darkly playful tone that feels entirely fitting for a series that always balanced action with edge. Billed right on the cover as "The Ultimate Issue," this 1990 send-off looks like a worthy cap to Larry Hama's run on one of Marvel's more undersung action titles.