This is me plugging into the excitement of the upcoming Avengers movie. If someone had told me as a kid about this film, I'd have felt like I'd died and gone to heaven. The Avengers were always one of my favorites, at least until Roy Thomas stopped writing the book. Maybe the Fantastic Four was still The World's Greatest Comic Magazine, but Thomas' Avengers issues sure gave it a run for its money.
I love the composition of this cover image, with its crisp contrast, gorgeous spot blacks, and a seriously dynamic close-up of The Black Knight. The other Avengers are also nicely represented in well-drawn action poses by Cameron Stewart.
I think this lost something when it was colored (see the accompanying scan of the printed book, and decide for yourself). The beauty of Cameron's art was similarly misrepresented by atrocious color on the covers of his and Jason Aaron's Vertigo mini-series, The Other Side.