Fantastic Four #115

Few covers from 1971 capture team-in-crisis tension quite like this one: Mr. Fantastic looms over a pinned, struggling Thing while the Invisible Woman and a flame-crackling Human Torch rush in behind her, the cover copy screaming that Reed Richards has turned against the F.F. — "But how?? HOW?" The arrival of the Over-Mind as a threat hangs over the whole scene, promising something genuinely unsettling beneath that striking red backdrop. John Buscema's layouts and John Romita's finishing inks give every figure a coiled, urgent energy that makes this issue hard to set back down on the shelf.