Captain America #132

December 1970 brings one of Marvel's more unsettling cover promises: "The Fearful Secret of Bucky Barnes!" The cover, penciled by Marie Severin and John Romita with inks by Frank Giacoia and John Romita, depicts a blue-clad figure hurling a boulder at a reeling Captain America while declaring "I've waited 20 years to do this!" — a speech balloon that makes the stakes feel deeply personal. A third figure crouches in the foreground, goggled and tense, watching the confrontation unfold against a backdrop of rubble and shadow. With Stan Lee writing and Gene Colan on interior art, this issue delivers exactly the kind of charged, character-driven tension that made Marvel's early '70s output so compelling.