The Fury of Firestorm #45

Firestorm looks absolutely overwhelmed on this February 1986 cover, his massive agonized face dominating the composition while a swarm of armored soldiers closes in from every direction — with a costumed figure perched right on his head, a feral creature lunging nearby, and a black-clad villain swinging a rope into the chaos. That desperate "OH. NO!!" burst says it all, and the cover art by Denys Cowan and Dick Giordano makes the sheer scale of the threat feel genuinely alarming. Gerry Conway, George Tuska, and Mike Gustovich bring "A Gathering of Hate!" to life inside, promising a story as intense as its cover suggests.