Six years before he would break new ground with his singular style on the title (as well as the text of the title itself) in issue #337, Walt Simonson drew this doozy of a cover, with the Loki looming over the image of a embattled thunder god, apparently about to be snatched and eaten by the scariest googly-eyed frost giant I've ever seen. Simonson's impressive design skills were already at work here, using the speed lines from Mjolnir to separate Loki from his brother's battle (though I wonder what Simonson was thinking in using those computer-like backgrounds...maybe a tribute to Kirby, possibly). Sinnot's inks here keeps the cover rooted in the Marvel house style, and his lines are strong.
This one gave me the willies, as that frost giant looked very similar to a great uncle of mine whom I'd only see on occasion, always hovering over the potato salad with his cane at the ready.
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