Doc Savage #7

Doc Savage faces an extraordinary threat in issue #7 — "The Mayan Mutations!" — as the cover by Ken Barr plunges us into a primordial jungle where a muscular, bare-chested Doc wrestles a massive, fang-filled creature while a woman in peril struggles nearby, with pterodactyl-like shapes haunting the murky background. The tagline "Ancient Monsters in a Land Beyond Time!" sets the mood perfectly for this 1977 Marvel magazine-format adventure. With Doug Moench writing and Val Mayerik on interior art, this is pulp adventure firing on all cylinders.