Silver Surfer #27

A cosmic clash is front and center in this September 1989 Marvel issue, as the Silver Surfer streaks through a burst of energy on his board while a grimacing, powerfully built figure — the Super-Skrull, as the cover proudly announces — looms large in the foreground, fist clenched and ready for battle. Ron Lim and Tom Christopher deliver a cover that crackles with kinetic tension, the purple-and-black deep-space backdrop making every burst of light and impact pop. With Steve Englehart writing and Ron Lim on interior art, "Along Came a Stranger…!" promises exactly the kind of intergalactic confrontation that made this volume a standout of late-'80s Marvel cosmic storytelling.