Rom #57

Rom faces a towering, roaring lion-like beast amid a churning supernatural wave on this striking 1984 cover, penciled and inked by John Byrne. The armored Spaceknight is braced against the surge while two mysterious figures — a robed figure with a long beard and a white-caped blonde woman — watch the confrontation unfold against a vivid yellow-green sky. Subtitled "Wave of Death!" and tied to the interior story "Scenes of Destruction on Every Hand!" by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema, this issue promises the kind of cosmic-scale tension that made Rom one of Marvel's most compelling series of its era.