The Punisher #51

Frank Castle hurls himself through a shattering wall of debris on Michael Golden's kinetic cover for this August 1991 installment, armed to the teeth and surrounded by fragments of ornate, Asian-inspired architecture — a vivid promise that the Punisher is bringing his one-man war straight to Chinatown. The bold tagline says it all, and Golden's dynamic composition makes the skull-chested vigilante feel genuinely unstoppable against that blazing red backdrop. With Mike Baron writing and Tom Morgan on interior art, "Golden Buddah" looks like a tight, propulsive chapter in one of Marvel's most relentless action series.