Amazing Adventures #12

This 1980 Marvel reprint showcase puts the Original X-Men front and center, with a Jack Kirby and Chic Stone cover that crackles with Silver Age energy — a powerful Sub-Mariner lunges forward menacingly while Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, and Angel scramble to meet the threat, with a squad of Evil Mutants looming ominously in the background. The bold cover blurb promises "Sub-Mariner Joins the Evil Mutants!," setting up a tantalizing clash of allegiances that Kirby's dynamic compositions make impossible to ignore. As a bonus, the issue also features Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., making this a genuinely satisfying double-feature from two landmark corners of the Marvel universe.