What Is The Greatest Marvel Cover Of The 90s? We’re gonna scientifically figure this out thanks to YOU, dear reader! I combed thru the ~10,000 Marvel covers of the 90s to pick (IMHO) the 200 best. The next few days I’ll post ‘em and let y’all vote on the best! #Best90sMarvelCover

2393). Feb1987. Wrapping up the Howard movie adaptation. Kyle Baker with the cover

Anyway, Johnny and Ben hash it out and Ben agrees to be his best man. “Of all of us, you always WERE the best man!” awww

An example of the “bashing each other to blow off some steam” superhero trope, used to great effect in the recent Rowell She-Hulk series among other places

Pete drops by to offer Johnny a sounding board. Pete can’t believe he’s getting married!

Hey this was the public debut and the first mention of… Four Freedoms Plaza! It would last until Diablo destroyed it in 2000 (after the Thunderbolts took it over after Heroes Reborn)

Jen sums it up: “WHAT?! You’re marrying Ben’s old girlfriend, and you were stupid enough to ask him to be BEST MAN?”

I wonder who was reading Tom Sawyer

2392). Feb1987. Ben vs Jen! (Not really) Ben struggles with Johnny asking him to be the best man for his upcoming wedding with “Alicia”…Fantastic Four melodrama at its finest. Cover by the Buscemas

I know I’ve said it many times before, but I continue to love how artists would slather on tons of magenta to random characters in the 80s

Me displaying my Marvel Legends figures

2391). Feb1987. Another long-running title comes to an end! Doctor Strange would show up again in the STRANGE TALES series in a couple of months, but this title which began back in 1974 with Englehart/Brunner would conclude here. Kevin Nowlan with the cover

And ending on this lovely page

An extended sequence imagining complete nuclear annihilation…just amazing stuff (and certainly hit hard in the mid 80s)

What a cool panel

This sequence of Elektra killing some dudes is brilliant

2390). Feb1987. The penultimate issue of the ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN mini, with more mind-blistering Sienkiewicz art. I think this was the first Marvel cover to homage Wood’s American Gothic, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last

Matt and Karen 😌

There have been many artists who have taken a turn at depicting Daredevil’s powers…this is one of my favorites, drawn by Louis Williams, inked by Williamson/Isherwood

Gonna be a recurrent phrase from me during this run: Nocenti wrote the hell out of it

2389). Feb1987. Rotgut was an interesting “villain” for Daredevil; shame he never shows up again after this issue. The proto-Muse, if you will. Art Adams with the cover