Squadron Supreme #10

Issue ten of twelve in this ambitious 1986 limited series, Squadron Supreme plunges its heroes into full-blown crisis on a cover by Paul Ryan and Bob Layton that earns every bit of its tagline — "Caught in the Quagmire!" A blue-haired heroine in the foreground struggles desperately against a surging, churning floodtide, while a nurse hauls a wounded, goggled teammate to safety nearby, a fishnet-stockinged figure recoils in the background, and a shadowy winged hand reaches ominously from the lower left. The scene crackles with genuine panic and suggests that Mark Gruenwald's story, "The Dark from Within," is pushing this world-altering superhero saga into some of its most turbulent territory yet.