Amazing Adventures #11

The Original X-Men race against Magneto himself in this 1980 Marvel reprint — the cover by Al Milgrom puts the team in high-seas peril, with Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, and Angel crowded onto a ship's bow while a looming ghostly Magneto dominates the background. A speech balloon urges them to find the Sub-Mariner before their arch-nemesis does, setting up a tense undersea manhunt drawn with real urgency. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's storytelling, inked by Chic Stone with lettering by Sam Rosen, makes this a genuinely fun showcase of Marvel's mutant team at their earliest and most earnest.