Silver Surfer #122

The cover of Silver Surfer #122 (November 1996) sets the stakes high with its headline "The Fall of Zenn-La!" — the Surfer's beloved homeworld apparently under dire threat. Scot Eaton and Don Hudson's cover art puts the Silver Surfer at the center of an explosive, fiery confrontation, trading blows with a long-haired, star-emblemed warrior in red-and-blue armor as chaos erupts around them. It's a vivid, kinetic image that perfectly captures the sense of a battle with cosmic consequences, making this one of the more urgent-feeling entries in the series' mid-1990s run.