The Fury of Firestorm #49

Firestorm blazes into action on this July 1986 cover by Denys Cowan and Klaus Janson, his nuclear flame cutting through a crowd of armed mob enforcers while a chained figure dangles helplessly in the foreground. The cover copy asks pointedly whether Moonbow — bound and inverted as the chaos erupts around her — has finally learned the hard way not to cross organized crime. Written by Gerry Conway with interior art by Joe Brozowski and Mike Machlan, this mid-run issue promises the kind of street-level stakes that make Firestorm's power feel genuinely necessary.