Captain Marvel #35

This November 1974 issue of Marvel's "most cosmic superhero of all" puts Captain Marvel in immediate peril, as the cover — penciled by Ron Wilson and inked by Frank Giacoia — shows him diving urgently toward an unconscious Rick Jones while the armored Living Laser fires a deadly beam and sneers, "It's already too late, Marvel — you're dead!" The tension is palpable: Captain Marvel is shouting for Rick to wake so they can switch atoms, the very survival mechanism that binds the two characters together. With a story titled "Deadly Genesis!" and a creative team including writers Steve Englehart and Mike Friedrich alongside artist Alfredo Alcala, this is a tightly wound cosmic adventure that delivers genuine suspense right from the cover.