Adventures on the Planet of the Apes #4

Marvel's 1976 adaptation series hits a dramatic peak with this fourth issue, subtitled "Trial by Fear!" — and the cover by Gil Kane and Frank Giacoia makes the stakes unmistakable. A muscular human prisoner, shackled in chains, strains defiantly against his ape captors while a robed ape judge pronounces a guilty verdict and a sentence of death, the human vowing revenge in the face of it all. Doug Moench and George Tuska bring their talents to the interior story "Trial," promising the same raw tension that Kane's cover so vividly captures.