Thunderbolts #7

The Thunderbolts charge headlong into an overwhelming threat on this October 1997 cover, with the team's leader front and center — fists raised and ready — while his colorful teammates fan out around him in a dynamic, action-packed formation. Surrounding them on all sides are the elemental forces promising serious trouble, all 109 of the Elements of Doom as the cover boldly announces, rendered in swirling masses of fire, earth, water, and energy by cover penciler Mark Bagley and inker Vince Russell. With Kurt Busiek and Roger Stern steering the story and a villain roster this gloriously absurd in scale, issue #7 makes a convincing case that Marvel's newest team has more than earned their "Justice, Like Lightning" motto.