Amazing Adventures #2

The cover by Bob Budiansky and Danny Villamonte sets the stage for "When Mutants Clash!" with a charged showdown between Magneto and the original X-Men — Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, and Angel — all rendered in crisp 1980 Marvel style amid a chaotic industrial battlefield of flying metal and machinery. Magneto dominates the center of the image, arms outstretched and clearly in command of the carnage around him, while the blue-and-yellow-costumed X-Men scramble to counter his assault from every direction. It's a vivid, kinetic snapshot of mutant-vs-mutant conflict that makes this reprint collection a genuinely satisfying way to revisit Roy Thomas and Werner Roth's early X-Men work.