The Thing #34

Paul Neary and Kim DeMulder's cover says it all: the Sphinx — green-costumed, pointed helm, fists flying — is hurling himself at a staggered Thing amid a backdrop of rubble and dust, and the cover copy warns he's dying and plans to take Ben Grimm with him. It's a desperate, hard-hitting clash that gives Mike Carlin's "Dual Duel" an appropriately urgent sense of stakes. Part of Marvel's 1986 25th Anniversary line, this is a solid chapter in the Thing's solo run that fans of bruising, villain-driven confrontations will want on their shelf.